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A North Carolina state Senate committee bowed to partisan politics in refusing to accept Secretary Dionne Delli-Gatti, Gov. Roy Cooper's highly qualified choice to lead the Department of Environmental Quality. "This action does a disservice to North...

It was another outwardly quiet week at the NC General Assembly, although it’s reported that behind-the-scenes budget negotiations are ongoing and that the House may soon propose a state budget because agreement with the Senate - which is supposed to...

After a hectic few weeks leading up to crossover, this was a quiet week at the NC General Assembly. Senate leadership grabbed the opening to use the gasoline shortage stemming from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown to promote fracked gas pipelines.

Through 2019, North Carolina ranked second in the United States in installed solar capacity (meaning, not including rooftop solar), trailing only California. Last year, however, we dropped to third overall - and fifth based on solar added that year...

Thursday was crossover day at the General Assembly, which made this one of the session's most hectic weeks. The Senate approved the Farm Act, decried by one opponent as “lipstick on a pig” - the pig being the antiquated lagoon-and-sprayfield hog...

The N.C. Senate voted Tuesday (May 11) to approve Senate Bill 605, "NC Farm Act of 2021." Section 11 of the bill would require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to create a general permit for biogas production at North Carolina’s...

This week was the busiest legislative week yet this year with lawmakers voting on hundreds of bills, including some that are helpful and some harmful to our environment. The negatives included a bill that would hamstring local government efforts to...

The NC General Assembly moved at a frenzied pace this week as legislators reviewed and voted on priority bills in advance of crossover and hundreds of new bills were filed. In addition, there was a Senate confirmation hearing for the recently named...

In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week and Earth Day, we celebrated a few of the folks who give their time, energy and passion to safeguard our air and water, help people threatened by pollution, cherish our wild places and endangered...

This week at the NC General Assembly, the House seemed to get in the Earth Day spirit by moving forward helpful bills to address plastic waste, update a health standard for lead in water and restore dedicated conservation funding.