NC Sierra Club: Cooper’s Budget Offers Critical, Timely Funding for GenX
April 10, 2018
Gov. Roy Cooper today said his short session budget proposal will include $14.5 million to better equip state agencies to address environmental health and safety threats posed by emerging contaminants such as GenX.The funding for the Department of...
N.C. Sierra Club Welcomes State’s Stringent Air Emissions Challenge for GenX
April 6, 2018
The N.C. Sierra Club appreciates the decision by state regulators to require the Chemours company to show that GenX air emissions from its Fayetteville Works will not be an ongoing source of groundwater contamination. The state Division of Air...
Hundreds travel from NC coast to rally against offshore drilling
February 27, 2018
Hundreds of North Carolina residents and allies gathered near a federal meeting on the Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan, presenting a loud and staunchly unified voice in protest of fossil fuel drilling in U.S. coastal waters. The NC...
Big issues unresolved as NCGA wraps up 2017 session
February 14, 2018
At long last, the 2017 (yes, 2017) session of the NC General Assembly has adjourned. That doesn't mean the work was finished - important but unresolved items include agency funding to address drinking water contaminants such as GenX. Cassie Gavin...
NC Sierra Club: Zinke Must Listen to State’s No-Drilling Message
February 3, 2018
Governor Cooper and other officials met Saturday with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to emphasize North Carolina's opposition to offshore drilling. Molly Diggins, state director for the N.C. Sierra Club, applauded the group’s bipartisan, personal...
Offshore drilling opposition builds as Cooper, New Hanover commissioners push back
January 22, 2018
Gov. Roy Cooper and the New Hanover Board of Commissioners spoke out Monday against offshore drilling, with Cooper threatening to sue the Trump administration if North Carolina is kept in its proposed five-year oil and gas plan.
House says let's fund GenX action - Senate says "See ya!"
January 12, 2018
The state House unanimously passed a bill that offers direction and critically needed funds to state agencies to take steps to address chemical contamination of drinking water in Wilmington and statewide. But, as Cassie Gavin explains, the Senate...
NC Senate goes home without even discussing House bill to address water contamination
January 10, 2018
The state House unanimously passed a bill that offers direction and critically needed funds to state agencies to take steps to address chemical contamination of drinking water in Wilmington and statewide. But the Senate had already adjourned and...
Trump’s offshore lease plan defies coastal NC residents’ concerns
January 4, 2018
Despite the opposition of communities across North Carolina and the region, the Trump administration today issued a proposed five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing that would vastly expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and other oceans...
NC-SC applauds DEQ move to pull Chemours wastewater permit
November 16, 2017
State officials are pulling the wastewater discharge permit for Chemours, the company whose chemical GenX has raised concerns about tainted drinking water in the Cape Fear River. "People who are personally affected by the GenX crisis will be...