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Tag Archives: Environmental waste
  • NC Settlement Results in Largest Coal Ash Cleanup in America

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 3, 2020

    Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, Matthew Starr, takes a water sample near the HF Lee facility in Goldsboro following Hurricane…


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  • Emerging Contaminants in Your Water

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 1, 2018

    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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  • Hurricane Florence by the Numbers

    Posted by Heather Deck on November 1, 2018

    Snapshot of Environmental & Community Impacts of Hurricane Florence • $17 billion in estimated damages • 750,000 evacuated • 35.93 inches of rain in Elizabethtown-…


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  • Resources for Eastern NC Residents Post-Florence

    Posted by Heather Deck on October 5, 2018

    If you are concerned about environmental contamination, please see the resources below. Information is provided…


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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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  • Widespread fraud uncovered in hog industry

    Posted by Heather Deck on June 5, 2018

    Waste Samples Falsified in Attempt to Dump more Pollution Than Law Allows Map of swine facilities in North Carolina,…


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  • Breaking News: Industry backs away from Garbage Juice technology

    Posted by Heather Deck on August 23, 2017

    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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  • Action Alert: Tell Your Legislators – Sustain Gov. Cooper’s Veto!

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 19, 2017

    Governor Cooper recently vetoed H576, Allow Aerosolization of Leachate. (What we’ve been referring to as the “garbage juice” bill.) This bill would force…


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  • Questions Remain on Duke Energy Coal Ash Pits

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on February 16, 2017

    By Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper In 2016, Sound Rivers secured an important legal victory to ensure that the coal…


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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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  • State would allow Duke Energy to dump large amounts of arsenic into Neuse River daily

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 20, 2016

    Public Hearing Comments from your Upper Neuse Riverkeeper- December 15, 2016 NC Dept of Environmental Quality Public Hearing – Duke Energy Wastewater permit for coal ash pits Good evening, my name…


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  • Duke Energy plans to leave toxic coal ash on banks of Neuse River

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 9, 2016

    Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, Matthew Starr, investigating illegal toxic seeps from Duke Energy coal ash pits…


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  • After the Flood

    Posted by Heather Deck on October 25, 2016

    After the Flood After the devastating effects of…


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  • Lab Analysis Detects Dangerous Metals From Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill

    Posted by Heather Deck on October 21, 2016

    WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE / SOUND RIVERS UPDATE LAB ANALYSIS DETECTS DANGEROUS METALS FROM DUKE ENERGY COAL ASH SPILL Contact Pete Harrison, Waterkeeper Alliance: pharrison@waterkeeper.org, 828-582-0422 Matthew Starr, Sound…


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  • Historic Flooding Leaving Large Human Health and Environmental Impact

    Posted by Heather Deck on October 21, 2016


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