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Summer showers: North Carolina cities flourish in 2025 ‘rain garden’ rankings

A new national study finds that several cities across the Tar Heel State — from Wilmington to Asheville — are among the best places in the country to build rain gardens, turning runoff into resilience and puddles into pollinator havens.

Katherine Zehnder
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New environmental justice mapping tool developed under Gov. Cooper’s executive order

As part of Executive Order 292, the Environmental Justice Advisory Council has developed a statewide environmental justice mapping tool to provide information about environmental justice issues that enables individuals to assess disparities or inequities associated with that data.

Brianna Kraemer

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Opinion

NC counties shouldn’t mandate EV infrastructure market doesn’t want

New technology is exciting, but politicians who flex their influence and power to force premature adoption do a disservice to their communities. As a New Hanover County commissioner, I write to caution my county — and all the other counties and municipalities in North Carolina — against imposing harmful electric vehicle (EV) mandates. In January,...

Dane Scalise
Opinion

Enjoy the sunrise

Enjoy the sunrise It’s 6:32 a.m. I am sitting on our concrete patio in the community of Bettie, Down East, in Carteret County, on a mottled aluminum bench facing directly east. The distinct odor of exposed mud flat and salt marsh permeates the air, indicating the tide has passed low and is now rising. I...

Nelson Paul