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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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

State lawmakers used a bit of legislative sleight-of-hand to get two fracking boosters named to the Oil & Gas Commission, taking seats intended for conservation organization representatives. Cassie Gavin explains how the environment took a...

NC legislative leaders named two fracking supporters to the state Oil and Gas Commission late Thursday, after the General Assembly lowered the bar by changing the requirements for these seats with respect to conservationist credentials.Jim Womack...

The Legislature today voted to override Governor Cooper's veto of an omnibus environmental bill that repeals the popular ban on plastic bags in the Outer Banks and takes away local waste management authority by giving it to private waste haulers....