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Tag Archives: pollution
  • 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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  • Join our team! We’re looking for a Communications Director

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 31, 2020

    Job Posting Closed: We are no longer accepting applications We’re hiring for the position of Communications Director. Sound Rivers has a long tradition of clean water advocacy, protecting…


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  • Landfill Concerns Prompt Riverkeeper Investigation

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 27, 2020

    A few weeks ago, concerned residents of Kittrell, North Carolina…


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  • NC AG and DEQ Announce Legal Action Against Clean Water Act Rollbacks

    Posted by Heather Deck on May 5, 2020

    On April 21, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules that greatly weakens clean water and wetland protections. On Friday, May…


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  • NC Attorney General Funds Sound Rivers Campus Stormwater Program

    Posted by Heather Deck on March 19, 2020

    In a press…


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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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  • Sound Rivers joins lawsuit over loss of clean water protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on February 18, 2020

    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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  • EPA Announces rule that attacks clean water protections

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 23, 2020

    Despite opposition from thousands of North Carolina residents, and strong  comments opposing the weakening changes by NC Attorney General…


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  • 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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  • A Riverkeeper’s Dedication: Protecting the Environment In and Out of the River

    Posted by Heather Deck on December 30, 2019

    By S. Wayne Miles, P.E., Stormwater Program Manager for the City of Raleigh Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper with Sound Rivers,…


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  • Updates on Impacts from Hurricane Dorian

    Posted by Heather Deck on September 6, 2019

    12PM September 6, 2019 Update Hurricane Dorian is finally moving away from the North Carolina coast. Major impacts occurred this morning on Ocracoke from Pamlico Sound side storm surge.  Overall,…


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  • Sound Rivers and partners reach groundbreaking settlement with NCDOT

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 22, 2019

    This week Sound Rivers reached a momentous settlement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation over their proposed 540 expansion in Wake County. As a result of this settlement,…


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  • Sound Rivers’ Campus Stormwater Program Goes to Craven Summit

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on August 22, 2019

    by Katy Hunt, Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Sound Rivers recently led a Stormwater workshop for Craven County teachers at the 2019 Craven…


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  • Swim Guide Results in Upper Neuse Prompt Concerns

    Posted by Corinne Everett-Belch on July 22, 2019

    Sound Rivers’ popular summer Swim Guide program has Raleigh-area residents and visitors concerned about their water quality, after several sites on the Upper Neuse had high levels of bacteria…


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  • Stormwater Project to Begin in Greenville

    Posted by Heather Deck on January 5, 2019

    Stormwater Improvement Project Underway at Jaycee Park Greenville, NC, January 4, 2019- Work will begin Monday, January 7, 2018 to begin improvements on a failed stormwater detention pond at Jaycee…


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