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The N.C. Senate today passed a bill that would block wind energy development - and the economic boost it provides - across much of North Carolina for three years. Senate Bill S377, "Military Base Protection Act," sponsored by Senate Majority...

Citing "significant adverse impacts" on fish habitats, fisheries, marine food webs and North Carolina's coastal economy, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) today rebuffed a company's plan to conduct seismic blasting off the coast.

The challenge to wind energy development continues in the N.C. General Assembly, as part of a flurry of environmentally harmful legislation considered this week, Cassie Gavin writes.

The Senate has approved its budget, so now lawmakers get to hammer out a compromise version of the House and Senate spending plans and send it to Governor Cooper - who offered his own proposal. Cassie Gavin shares the highlights of the Senate's just...

The annual regulatory reform bill, always a grab-bag of lawmakers' wishes, made its appearance this week in the Senate. Cassie Gavin fills us in on the bill's potential impact on the environment.

This week was a quiet one at the N.C. General Assembly. But indications are that next week will be busy as the Senate works towards a budget and both chambers move bills through committees in an effort to pass them before the end of the session,...

Cassie Gavin writes that the week was hectic but short as state lawmakers raced to pass bills before their "crossover" deadline, the point at which a measure must have passed at least one chamber to remain alive for the biennium. The flurry of...

The N.C. House today passed a measure that would limit local governments’ ability to regulate billboards and put scenic highways at risk, but rejected many of the most egregious provisions in the measure’s original version.

This week was a hectic one at the N.C. General Assembly. With crossover imminent, legislators are rushing to pass bills out of committees and out of one chamber or the other to keep them alive for the biennium. Cassie Gavin reports that a pair of...

The N.C. Senate voted 27-21 today to pass Senate Bill 559, Storm Securitization/Alt. Rates, a bill that would allow Duke Energy to seek permission for up to five years of rate increases in one request to the N.C. Utilities Commission, instead of...