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Mrs. Ramona Rae Alons Nixon, age 56, of Grimesland, NC, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2025 @ 7:00 am
By: Announcements
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replacing dependable coal with intermittant wind and solar may mean blackouts
Published: Sunday, April 28th, 2024 @ 7:36 pm
By: John Steed
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joins environmentalists and commercial fishermen in opposing offshore wind farms
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 5:14 pm
By: John Steed
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Cities across New Jersey coastline are banning together to request an investigation into a series of recent whale deaths
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last few months, roughly two dozen whale corpses have washed up on the Atlantic Coast of the United States.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys announced it would close beginning Monday in response to a flood of migrants arriving on its shores.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 1:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The American energy industry is being strangled by White House policy consumed by green energy
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There has been little examination of the extent of the impacts of “environmentally friendly” offshore wind development on affected marine ecologies, habitats, fisheries, and wildlife
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 4:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wind turbines have been highlighted as the future of green energy by Gov. Roy Cooper, but could these monolith windmills destroy North Carolina’s coasts?
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 4:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2021 Gov. Cooper ordered the state to develop 2.8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy resources by 2030 and a whopping 8 GW by 2040
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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was at meeting in Wilmington yesterday to promote offshore wind
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:48 am
By: John Steed
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Today, President Trump approved Governor Cooper’s request for a major disaster declaration for Public Assistance for the following counties impacted by Hurricane Dorian: Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Hyde, Jones, New Hanover, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson, Tyrrell, and Washington.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper today sent an additional request to President Trump for federal assistance to North Carolina residents who are hurting from Hurricane Dorian.
Published: Monday, September 23rd, 2019 @ 10:49 am
By: Governor's Office
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Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Dorian’s storm surge inundated Ocracoke Island, the state of North Carolina continues to provide critical support services to the island.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 4:47 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Most oceanographers would rather find themselves studying sardines instead of being packed like one, but East Carolina University assistant professor Rebecca Asch squeezed into the research vessel Kilo Moana last month for a training cruise off the coast of Hawaii with nearly two dozen researchers.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 12:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Following last month's announcement that the Trump Administration authorized airgun use in waters off the East Coast, Governor Roy Cooper and a group of bipartisan governors today urged Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to prohibit harmful seismic testing and offshore
Published: Friday, December 21st, 2018 @ 1:24 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The length of a fishing pier separated opposing groups making waves over oil and gas drilling off the North Carolina coast Monday evening inside the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown
Published: Thursday, March 1st, 2018 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joined by local business leaders and elected officials, Gov. Roy Cooper once again called on the Trump Administration today to grant North Carolina an exemption from proposed seismic testing and offshore drilling and pledged potential legal action to protect North Carolina's coastal communities
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 2:29 am
By: Governor's Office
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Following an announcement late yesterday that the Trump Administration will exempt Florida from its plan to open Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters to offshore drilling, Governor Cooper today urged Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke to grant an exemption for North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 @ 9:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Cooper shared the following statement on the White House's announcement on offshore drilling
Published: Thursday, January 4th, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A law banning plastic grocery bags in some Outer Banks communities may be unconstitutional, says a prominent former lawmaker
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University scientists have been sending a small craft to navigate the North Carolina coast studying underwater noise and keeping tabs on tagged marine life all to better understand the ocean environment.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 @ 4:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Renowned underwater explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau urged action to protect endangered ocean resources in a presentation Wednesday, Oct. 1 at East Carolina University.
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Opponents say a tax on plastic bags being explored by the Raleigh City Council would be "extraordinarily regressive," could cost consumers $1.8 million annually, would not help the environment, and may be unconstitutional.
Published: Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 @ 4:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, Chair of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Governors Coalition, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Interior released its review that could allow seismic testing firms, under certain conditions.
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 7:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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