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The Farm Bill
The Farm Bill: bad for the environment, bad for you The Farm Bill (SB315) includes provisions that add to the cloak of secrecy around an industry that has polluted our…
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Action Alert: Support Protection of Endangered Species in Your Watershed!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing two new aquatic species, the Neuse River waterdog and the Carolina madtom, which only live in North Carolina,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Blounts Creek Community Members Attend NC Court of Appeals Hearing
Senior attorney, Geoff Gisler from SELC and Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper, Forrest English speak to Blounts Creek community members after…
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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…
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Volunteers Gather for New Bern River Cleanup
By Katy Hunt, Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Sound Rivers held our annual Spring Cleanup on May 4th at Lawson Park in New Bern. What started out as…
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Help Stop the Dumping of Arsenic Into the Neuse
The fight to protect the Neuse River from coal ash pollution is not over and we need your help. The ask…
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Craven County Campus Stormwater Project Approved for Phase 2
For the past two years, Sound Rivers has been partnering with Craven County Schools and the Epiphany School on an innovative Campus Stormwater Project. This grant funded…
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Support the Bill to Assess the Poultry Industry’s Impact in NC!
The largest and fastest-growing source of nutrient pollution in our waterways is the poultry industry, according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. But the industry…
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Volunteering for Change
by Christina Marshen On September 19, 2005, I was driving home from work and got hit by a drunk driver. I start my story there not to induce…
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Take Action: North Carolina Rolling Back Nutrient Rules To Benefit Polluters
The Pamlico and Neuse estuaries have a problem. For decades, an excess of nutrient pollution has been dumped into our…
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Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Visits Hog Farm
Last week, your Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Matthew Starr was invited by Tom Butler to visit his industrial animal operation, Butler Farms. Tom and Matthew…
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EPA Seeks To Undermine Clean Water – Demand They Reconsider
The EPA has released a massive proposed rollback to rules which define where the Clean Water Act applies; a law that has been protecting our right to swim, drink,…
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