Coast Guard Sector Mobile Hurricane Sally response operations transitioned to a maritime environmental response Tuesday, September 29, 2020, focusing on pollution cleanup and salvage operations. Hurricane Sally caused extreme and widespread damage to commercial […]
By Kay Whatley For future homebuyers, what will be the biggest draw? Will the perfect location, convenience to school, work, and shopping, or beautiful settings still be driving home sales? Or will future buyers gravitate […]
Duke Energy is polluting groundwater, damaging wetlands, and storing coal ash in unstable areas at unlined, leaking sites in North and South Carolina, according to its own recent filings required by the US federal Coal […]
Bottlenose dolphins are being exposed to chemical compounds added to many common cleaning products, cosmetics, personal care products and plastics, according to a new study in GeoHealth, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The […]
By Kay Whatley The recent push to get rid of plastic straws is resulting in US chain restaurants, coffee shops, and hotels removing straws from their facilities. That’s good news, though it is only a […]
Marriott International on July 18, 2018 announced that it has adopted a plan to remove disposable plastic straws and plastic stirrers from its more than 6,500 properties across 30 brands around the world. Once fully […]
On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, a Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) occurred as a result of a failure of the bypass pumps located at Stith Talbert Park in conjunction with a project to rehabilitate the 54-inch […]
North Carolina Court Vacates State Permit By Kathleen Sullivan (SELC), Heather Deck (Sound Rivers) and Todd Miller (NC Coastal Federation) A state court late yesterday (December 28, 2017) vacated or annulled a state permit that would have […]
Judge Orders TVA to Excavate and Move Its Coal Ash from Leaking, Unlined Pit By Beth Alexander and Claudine McElwain, Southern Environmental Law Center On August 4, 2017, a Federal Court in Nashville Tennessee ruled against […]
By Ford Porter, Office of the Governor, nc.gov Joining other Governors, Mayors, colleges and universities, and businesses, Governor Roy Cooper declared that North Carolina will continue efforts to reduce pollution in support of the global Paris […]
By Lauren Lipuma, American Geophysical Union A new study combining European ice core data and historical records of the infamous Black Death pandemic of 1349-1353 shows metal mining and smelting have polluted the environment for thousands […]
Southern Environmental Law Center Says Duke Energy Coal Ash Pollution into Hyco Lake and Dan River and Roanoke River Basins Violates Clean Water Act By Frank Holleman, selcnc.org On behalf of the Roanoke River Basin Association, […]
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Seeks to Permit Duke Energy’s Leaks of Coal Ash Polluted Wastewater into the Dan River and Roanoke River Basin Released by Kathleen Sullivan, selcnc.org Three new permits proposed by the […]
FORT YATES, North Dakota – The following is a statement from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, Dave Archambault II on the Tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline proposed project. Statement from Standing Rock Sioux Tribal […]
Released by Alan Buis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory In an extensive airborne survey, a NASA-led team has analyzed a previously identified “hot spot” of methane emissions in the Four Corners region of the United States, quantifying both […]
Released by Lauren Lipuma (agu.org), Katy Human (colorado.edu), Sandra McLean (yorku.ca), and Kathryn Dunkelman (brown.edu) Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds. Camp Century, a US military base built […]
Released by Alan Buis (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Pam Frost Gorder (The Ohio State University) Coastal waters and near-shore groundwater supplies along more than a fifth of coastlines in the continental United States are vulnerable […]
Released by Tameka Kenan-Norman, City of Rocky Mount On Sunday, July 17, 2016, a sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) occurred as a result of saturated ground conditions and locally intense rains associated with a weather system which […]
By Kay Whatley, Editor In a recent interview by Stephen Colbert, Erin Brockovich’s brought to light that the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is “just the tip of the iceberg” and a “national crisis.” During the […]
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