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Sound Rivers Swim Guide Protects You This Summer!
Swim Guide is BACK on the Neuse & Tar-Pamlico – this year with Raleigh and Kinston sites as well! Make sure you check in each Friday this summer for weekly water quality reports to keep you in the know about your waterways. See below of a map of the sites
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Welcome Jillian Howell, New Environmental Projects Manager!
Help us welcome Jillian Howell! Jill joined the Sound Rivers team this week as our new Environmental Project Manager. She grew up in Saugus, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, and received a B.A. in environmental studies and global studies from Colby College. Jill worked for five years as a project scientist for environmental
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Action Alert: Tell NC Legislators to Protect You, Not Polluters
Despite proof of the harms of pollution from industrial animal production on Eastern North Carolina, some legislators are currently attempting to hide the impacts of industrial swine facilities and change laws that will further exacerbate their pollution. Senate Bill 315, North Carolina Farm Act of 2019, seeks to add exemptions for many agricultural
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Blounts Creek Community Members Attend NC Court of Appeals Hearing
Over twenty community members from Blounts Creek traveled to Raleigh on Wednesday, May 22nd to hear oral arguments on the long standing case of Sound Rivers vs. NC Department of Environmental Quality and Martin Marietta Materials. In late December 2017, a state court vacated a permit that would have allowed
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Action Alert: State Budget Should Reduce Pollution Not Concentrate It
Representative Jimmy Dixon recently proposed an amendment to the budget that diverts money from a cost share program that has been successfully working for years to reduce pollution on farms throughout the state. Rep. Dixon’s amendment was passed and is now included in the budget. This section funnels some of
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