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  • Neuse Riverkeepers Highlight Pollution Threats from Hurricane Florence

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 13, 2018

    Lower Neuse Riverkeeper, Katy Langley spoke to Dan Charles from NPR on All Things Considered about the threat of hog waste pits flooding. In the days leading…


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  • Hurricane Florence to Cause Significant Storm Surge, Flooding

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 13, 2018

    Even though the…


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  • SELC files suit against FERC on behalf of Sound Rivers

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 22, 2018

    On August 16th the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed suit on behalf of Sound Rivers and other groups against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorizing the Atlantic…


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  • Sound Rivers’ Swim Guide interns say goodbye!

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 16, 2018

    This summer Sound Rivers welcomed Katie McQuillan, an Environmental Science major at UNC Chapel Hill, to the Lower Neuse and Duncan Anderson, an Environmental Technology and Management…


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  • Fish kills reported this week

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 16, 2018

    Fish kills were reported in both the Neuse and…


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  • Clean Air and Water Advocates Launch Pipeline Monitoring Effort

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 1, 2018

    Group Will Watch Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction for Environmental Protection Violations Contact: Doug Jackson, Sierra Club, 202.495.3045, doug.jackson@sierraclub.org Forrest English, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper, 252.946.7211, pamtarrk@soundrivers.org Christine Ellis, Executive Director, Winyah Rivers,…


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  • Read Lower Neuse Riverkeeper’s op-ed on industrial agriculture

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 16, 2018

    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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  • Action Alert: Urge NC To Update Clean Water Protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on July 12, 2018

    Our streams, lakes, rivers, and sounds are a major part of what makes North Carolina a special place to live, and right…


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  • Water Spotlight: The Lower Tar-Pamlico River

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 12, 2018

    By Forrest English The Albemarle-Pamlico estuary is the second largest estuarine complex in the lower 48 states. It also holds another interesting distinction as…


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  • Summer 2018 Edition of “Currents” Out Now!

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on June 28, 2018

    The Summer 2018 edition of Sound Rivers’ quarterly newsletter, Currents, is headed out to members now! Want to read it early? You can…


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  • NC General Assembly Protects Corporate Polluters Over People

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 28, 2018

    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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  • Action Alert: Sustain Governor Cooper’s Veto

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 26, 2018

    On Monday Governor Cooper vetoed a bill (Senate Bill 711) that would give industrial hog…


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  • Groups file new legal claims on 540

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 26, 2018

    Press Release: June 25, 2018 Conservation Groups File New Claims against NCDOT, FHWA, NMFS over Deficient Reviews of $2.2 Billion 540 Toll Road


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  • Fishing for Facts

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 14, 2018

    Fishing for Facts – June 14, 2018 Lawmakers pass NC Budget That Does Little for Water Resources Protection; Delays…


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  • Guest Blog: Our Tar River Getaway

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 11, 2018

    26 May 2018 By Peggy Schaeffer  and Diane Bryson  Someone gave me a fridge magnet…


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