Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina

June 23, 2016

Southeast Opposition Mounts as Senate Considers Proposal Tying Western Wildfire Funding to Logging

Washington, D.C.— Today the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources committee held a hearing on long-needed Congressional efforts to stabilize funding for wildfire suppression in the Western United...

June 21, 2016

Court Asked to Stop U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Capturing and Killing Wild Red Wolves

Chapel Hill, N.C. – Conservation groups late yesterday asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from capturing and killing th...

June 21, 2016

Court asked to stop USFWS from capturing, killing wild red wolves

June 14, 2016

Citizen Groups Take Duke Energy to Federal Court for Coal Ash Pollution at its Mayo Site

Chapel Hill, N.C.--The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Roanoke River Basin Association, today brought a Clean Water Act enforcement action in federal court against Duke Energy for ...

June 3, 2016

Judge orders excavation of 4 more N.C. coal ash sites

June 1, 2016

Arsenic Pollution Plummets at Grainger Site as Coal Ash is Removed in South Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.- According to the latest report on coal ash removal in South Carolina under a settlement, arsenic pollution at Santee Cooper’s Grainger plant in Conway, SC, has dropped significantly...

May 31, 2016

Breaking: N.C. General Assembly approves Duke Energy coal ash bailout bill

May 27, 2016

Right-sizing Asheville highway upgrades

May 24, 2016

Breaking: Bill backtracking on state Coal Ash Management Act racing through N.C. Legislature

May 18, 2016

N.C. DEQ asks for new deadline to finalize coal ash storage classifications