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Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper: Legislators must seal the deal on flood prevention, mitigation
This week in 2018, a category 1…
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Sound Rivers joins lawsuit over loss of clean water protections
Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration today for eliminating longstanding Clean Water Act protections for the nation’s waters, including approximately half of all…
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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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Devil We Know Film Screening
Join us for a FREE screening of The Devil We Know on Tuesday December 11th at 7:00pm at The…
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Emerging Contaminants in Your Water
Your Riverkeepers have been monitoring the emerging contaminants situation on your rivers for some time now; you may recognize “GenX” from the news – it appeared in…
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Coal Ash contaminating the Neuse? Duke Energy and DEQ say no.
The NC Department of Environmental…
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High levels of arsenic found in Neuse River following H.F. Lee Coal Ash Spill
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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Upper Neuse Riverkeeper Responds to Proposed Gen X Legislation
The NC Senate has released proposed legislation they say will…
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Sound Rivers takes legal action against FERC on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
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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Why I Give, with Karen Polk
By Corinne Everett Belch, Director of Development Karen Polk has been a sustaining supporter of Sound Rivers for years. She first became aware…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline to Cross Sensitive Streams
By Heather Deck, Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is an interstate natural gas transmission pipeline in Virginia and North Carolina. If constructed, the ACP will be owned,…
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President signs Dirty Water Order
Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order that is intended to weaken the Clean Water Act, a major federal law that has protected our Nation’s water since 1972. The
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Take Action on Clean Water Rollbacks
Take Action today for the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico Rivers and help us protect the River Living we all enjoy! Senate leaders have put the health of our waterways at risk. They have…
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EMC Restores Science in Reports
In today’s meeting of the NC Environmental Management Commission, the Water Quality Committee restored important scientific information to two reports on riparian buffers and Solar Bees in Jordan…
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