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NC Settlement Results in Largest Coal Ash Cleanup in America
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
Upper Neuse Riverkeeper, Matthew Starr, investigating illegal toxic seeps from Duke Energy coal ash pits…
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Lab Analysis Detects Dangerous Metals From Duke Energy Coal Ash Spill
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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