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NCGA overrides vetoes of carbon bill, privacy act
The Power Bill Reduction Act and the Personal Privacy Protection Act were passed into law following NCGA overrides of Gov. Stein's vetoes.
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Lawmakers override Cooper to enact Building Code Regulatory Reform
The North Carolina General Assembly voted Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 166, legislation implementing regulatory reforms to building codes in the state. Housing has been a top issue of concern for residents and policymakers as inflation, regulation, and supply crunches have driven home and rental prices into painful or out...
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Homeowners must now disclose flooding history to buyers under new real estate rules
A new real estate rule took effect on Monday that requires anyone selling their home in North Carolina to disclose information about previous flooding incidents to potential buyers.
Opinion
Can House Bill 951 keep winter from coming to North Carolina?
Winter is coming. I know it’s hard to fathom amid a hot, humid North Carolina summer, but it is. Across from our beautiful beaches, The Economist predicts “Europe’s Winter of Discontent.” Disastrous public policies that increase dependence on unreliable energy sources and hostile foreign regimes have put the free world, including all of us here in...
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Shifting sands: We continue to build and live along the N.C. coast, but should we?
Coastal communities are no strangers to the heavy winds and the massive storm surges hurricanes bring. Hurricane Dorian was no different when it hammered North Carolina’s barrier islands at the start of September. The people are resilient. They will rebuild, as they always do, after each hurricane. But should they? That’s the question local officials...
Opinion
The Left’s war on science
The recent resignations of two prominent experts from state government advisory panels on environmental matters and the Republican-led Congress’ refusal before it left for summer recess to appropriate additional funds to manage the Zika threat reprised a familiar theme of Democrats’ characterizations of their political opponents. Conservatives, they say, are anti-science. Heck, it’s as if...
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CCS Joins Clinton Global Initiative
RALEIGH – The Center for Climate Strategies, which is finalizing recommendations for North Carolina to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, announced over the weekend that it would perform similar work on a national scale as part of the Clinton Global Initiative, an ambitious effort sponsored by a foundation named for the former U.S. president.
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Pa. Group Guides NC CO2 Panel
RALEIGH — A nonprofit environmental advocacy group, which staunchly believes global warming must be reduced through reductions in human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, controls another nonprofit organization that advises a climate action panel started by the N.C. Division of Air Quality. The DAQ-created group, in turn, makes recommendations on carbon-dioxide reductions to the Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change.
Opinion
Instituting A Certain Skepticism
Duke University has created a new “unbiased” institute on environmental policy run by a former staff member to a Democratic senator, affiliated with a well-known environmental activist, and endorsed by left-wing groups.
Opinion
“Market-maker, market-maker, make me a market”
It's time to stop griping about global warming and start celebrating instead. Maybe. Even though the U.S. did not ultimately back the 34-nation Kyoto Agreement that took effect on February 15th, domestic global warming legislation, in the form of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, claims it will be a major engine (if you'll pardon the pun) of new jobs in the U.S.
