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Tag Archives: Climate Change
  • Take Action: Demand clean technology by hog industry

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 5, 2020

    Industry giants, Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, want to ignore longtime promises to adopt clean technology to protect communities from the harmful impacts of industrial…


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  • Protecting, preserving, and restoring the floodplain

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on October 19, 2020

    by Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper We still have a more than a month left in the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, but, as it winds down, we need…


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  • Take Action: Ask Governor Cooper to Fight for Clean Water

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 19, 2020

    Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released devastating rollbacks to water protections in the Clean Water Act. As this opinion piece in the New York Times notes,…


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  • High levels of arsenic found in Neuse River following H.F. Lee Coal Ash Spill

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 28, 2018

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2018 Contact: Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, upperneuserk@soundrivers.org , ( 919) 961-2240 Maia Raposo, Waterkeeper Alliance, mraposo@waterkeeper.org , (203) 824-2229 Donna Lisenby, Waterkeeper Alliance, dlisenby@waterkeeper.org , (828) 297-3777 Analysis Finds…


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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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  • 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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  • Sound Rivers to Join Legal Challenge over FERC Pipeline Decision

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 14, 2018

    Sound Rivers is joining with…


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  • Sound Rivers takes legal action against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 14, 2017

    Groups Take Legal Action Against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Press Release, 11/13/17 Sound Rivers joined a coalition of affected landowners and conservation groups this week and filed a request for rehearing,…


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  • Riverkeepers ask North Carolina to Deny Atlantic Coast Pipeline Permit

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 19, 2017

    Credit Wilson Times: At a public hearing on a water quality certification application for the Atlantic Coast…


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  • Action Alert: Sustain Governor Cooper’s Veto and Stop Eminent Domain to Oil Companies

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 17, 2017

    This week, Governor Cooper vetoed Senate Bill 16. Senate Bill 16 was passed by the legislature during the early…


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  • Tell NC to reject the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 17, 2017

    We need to act fast! The proposed 600-mile fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is on its way to being built – unless we all work together to stop this…


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  • Harmful algal blooms to be more extreme in the future

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 17, 2017

    A recent peer review…


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  • Dead in the Water

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 20, 2017

    Dead in the Water: Environmental Enforcement in North Carolina  is the first comprehensive…


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  • Climate Change and Impacts to our Rivers

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 12, 2017

    by Travis Graves, Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Climate science reports to the public are generally big-picture stories centered on the rising temperatures of our oceans, and how increases in…


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  • Keep it in the Ground

    Posted by Heather Deck on April 22, 2016

    This Earth Day, take action to Keep It in the Ground! There’s no better message to drive home on Earth Day than Keep It in the Ground


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