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The state Senate passed a bill Thursday designed to protect Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks from damaging development projects.
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The state Groundwater and Waste Management Committee did not take up a vote during Wednesday's meeting to move forward with groundwater standards for PFAS. This comes after the North Carolina Chamber asked state officials to delay action on adopting these standards.
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The horseshoe crab species is more than 400 million years old. Their population has declined rapidly over the past few decades because of overharvesting and habitat loss.
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The Biden administration’s effort to remove an estimated 9.2 million lead pipes from the nation’s public and private water systems has begun. The first step in that process is a mandated service line inventory due later this year. But for local governments across North Carolina, it’s unclear where the money to cover the full cost of the inventory will come from.
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The lawsuit filed in federal court argues the proposed Southside timber project violates federal law. The area slated for logging is near the Whitewater River in the Nantahala National Forest.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says a series of environmental directives and goals he initiated to protect and restore forests and wetlands in the state will help counter climate change and aid the economy. Cooper had signed an executive order on Monday that in part sets statewide acreage targets for governments and private land-protection groups by 2040.
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A grandmother’s decades-long battle against lead contamination could come to a close soon if she can get just one more domino to fall.
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Environmental groups argued at the state Court of Appeals Wednesday that North Carolina regulators erred when they approved new rules and rates for rooftop solar installations and that the changes hurt the state's solar industry.
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A 2021 North Carolina state law requires Duke Energy to reduce its carbon emissions by 70% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, and to be carbon neutral by 2050. Critics say the latest proposed plan relies too heavily on fossil fuels.
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Marine mammal experts on North Carolina’s coast want to combat misinformation about the cause of strandings. It comes after two sperm whales were stranded and died along the state’s coast in December.
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On February 2, 2014, a stormwater pipe underneath the ash basin broke, sending 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of ash pond water into the Dan River. The spill ultimately led to largest coal ash clean up in U.S. history.
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Three North Carolina counties have some bird populations that are strongly declining, consistent with a 2019 study that found “major” population loss among North America’s birds.