Following EPA approval, vehicle emissions inspections requirements have been eliminated by language in the state budget.
The federal government has announced a $450 million settlement with Chemours to resolve complaints about the release of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in North Carolina, New Jersey, and West Virginia.
House committee opens discussions on PFAS levels, following findings of DEQ study.
EPA allocates funding as multiple towns are facing the rebuilding of water infrastructure facilities in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
TCE and PCE were among the chemicals found in the drinking water at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune military base in the 1980s in one of the worst cases of contaminted drinking water in US history.
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.
Vehicle emissions inspections are currently required in 19 North Carolina counties, but the NC Department of Environmental Quality could soon eliminate the requirement for almost every county in the state.
A federal judge has decided not to grant an injunction against the US Environmental Protection and Army Corps of Engineers in a lawsuit challenging the agencies' definition of federally protected wetlands. Property owner Robert White is challenging federal regulation of his forested land near the Pasquotank River.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected four environmental groups’ lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency over PFAS testing. The groups had argued that the federal agency had effectively denied a petition to test certain chemicals at a Chemours plant south of Fayetteville. The split 2-1 ruling Monday affirms a decision from US District Judge Richard Myers favoring the EPA.
Saying “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances” is a mouthful—so let’s stick with the common abbreviation for this group of man-made chemicals: PFAS. And no, you don’t want a mouthful of them. If consumed in high concentrations, PFAS may be harmful to human health. But we don’t know how high a concentration it takes. That’s why the...
When President Trump speaks to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention Sunday, I’ll be listening for next steps in his plan to free North Carolina farmers from the devastating overreach of Obama administration rules that expanded the definition of private land that can be regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. Under President Obama’s...
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