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Proposed changes to Clean Water Act will gut protections
This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposal to dramatically cut back protections to wetlands and waterways that we all…
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Fishing for Facts 10-2018
Fishing for Facts – October, 2018 Protecting the Clean Water Act Clean Water is a way of life in the South,…
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Read Lower Neuse Riverkeeper’s op-ed on industrial agriculture
Your Lower Neuse Riverkeeper, Katy Langley, wrote an op-ed for the New Bern Sun Journal in reponse to Rep. John Bell’s misinformed op-ed supporting industrial agriculture. Katy says, “This…
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NC General Assembly Protects Corporate Polluters Over People
On Wednesday, June 27th, the NC General Assembly quickly voted to override the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 711, the Farm Act; voting to protect the interest of corporations…
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Fishing for Facts
Fishing for Facts – June 14, 2018 Lawmakers pass NC Budget That Does Little for Water Resources Protection; Delays…
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Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Responds to Proposed Gen X Legislation
The NC Senate has released proposed legislation they say will…
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NC Legislature Overrides HB56 Veto
The General Assembly voted to override Governor Cooper’s Veto of House Bill 56 yesterday, the environmental omnibus passed last month that appropriates only local funding for GenX testing…
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Breaking News: Industry backs away from Garbage Juice technology
Breaking News Yesterday, Republic Services, a leading waste management industry, issued a public statement and pulled its support for waste aerosolization technology. Additionally,…
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Fishing for Facts – 6/29/2017
Fishing for Facts – June 29, 2017 Final days push….bad legislation moving fast. The word on the…
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Coal Ash May Cost Customers
Citizen action is needed to stop a provision that is likely to increase costs and potentially delay clean-up of Duke…
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Fishing For Facts – 6/1/2017
Fishing for Facts – June 1, 2017 Budget woes, plastic bags and crime waves among the trees of Jordan Lake? The North…
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Fishing for Facts – 5/11/2017
Fishing For Facts- May 11, 2017 NC Senate Budget seeks further cuts to environmental agencies; House overrides Governor’s veto It’s…
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Action Alert: Tell Gov. Cooper to VETO H467
Make your voice heard! House Bill 467 has passed the NC State Legislature, and is now on Governor…
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Fishing for Facts- 4-27-2017
Fishing For Facts- April 27, 2017 Delays in Falls Lake protections, loss of streamside buffers and ….garbage juice!? The NC…
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Fishing for Facts – 4/13/17
Fishing For Facts- April 13, 2017 It is no secret that clean water protections have been under assault in North Carolina for a number of years….
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