Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order Tuesday rebranding the secretary of Environmental Quality’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board as the Governor’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Published: Monday, February 26th, 2024 @ 10:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) to celebrate Clean Energy Week and highlight the community college’s innovative military workforce training programs.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 8:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper credited for leading an army of clean-energy companies coming to the state, is being criticized for polluting waterways near its $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Chatham County.
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has released new guidance about consuming certain types of fish from parts of the lower Cape Fear River.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After months of delays, a barrier wall at the Chemours Fayetteville Works Site in Bladen County is complete, according to The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ).
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 9:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is recommending limits on consumption of certain freshwater fish from the middle and lower Cape Fear River based on concerns about exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) found in fish sampled from that area.
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 @ 7:41 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced a first of its kind National Primary Drinking Water Regulation at a press conference in Wilmington on Tuesday. The regulation applies to six PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) also known as “forever chemicals” that can be found in drinking water.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plans to build electric vehicles at a proposed EV production plant in Chatham County have hit another pothole. Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast announced Friday that it will push off production until 2025.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and NC Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Secretary Elizabeth S. Biser announced Thursday that 249 infrastructure projects in 80 communities across North Carolina would receive $462.9 million to aid in cleaner drinking water and strengthen wastewater and stormwater systems.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2023 @ 11:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Tonight, Governor Roy Cooper will deliver his fourth State of the State address, emphasizing that North Carolina is at a pivotal moment with opportunities for historical investments rebuilding North Carolina’s infrastructure, communities and economy.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Governor's Office
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After news last week of layoffs and a restructuring of its North American division, VinFast may have cleared a hurdle in its efforts to build a production plant in Chatham County.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 12:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Investing Historic $2.3 Billion in Water Infrastructure Over Two Years
Published: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 11:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Edgecombe County to highlight water infrastructure grant funding.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 12:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed an “Memorandum of Understanding” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to promote “zero-emissions” trucks and buses
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a sweeping executive order that directs the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to take a number of major actions to mandate increased use of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) among public and private medium-and-heavy duty (MHD) vehicles.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 2:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Market decisions are voluntary and based in buyers and sellers exchanging their own property at prices they mutually agree upon — that is basic economics
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2022 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill allows lawsuits, penalties retroactive to 2017.
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Secretary Elizabeth S. Biser and North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR) Secretary Reid Wilson celebrated Earth Day by participating in a stream clean-up at Chavis Park in Raleigh.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 12:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today $153 million in loans and grants to help pay for 48 drinking water and wastewater projects statewide.
Published: Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 @ 7:58 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today $282 million in loans and grants to help pay for 94 drinking water and wastewater projects statewide.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 1:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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As candidates for their respective offices, both Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein took bold stands defending electricity consumers from being made to pay for coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today $194 million in loans and grants to help pay for 54 drinking water and wastewater projects.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 @ 11:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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88 Projects Funded with a focus on Infrastructure Resiliency
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 1:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina should avoid borrowing billions, even though the state’s “credit card limit,” a recent study says, is more than $11 billion over the next decade.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 12:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Executive Committee for the North Carolina Third Congressional District Republican Party met on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020 in Washington, N.C.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 3:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper hadn’t finished his opening remarks at the Climate Change Interagency Council meeting before noisy protesters decried his position on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper’s Climate Change Interagency Council presented four key plans related to clean energy and climate change to the Governor today.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2019 @ 8:52 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper announced the State Water Infrastructure Authority has approved $112 million in loans that will help North Carolina communities pay for 26 much-needed drinking water and wastewater projects statewide, from Murphy to Manteo.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 2:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Duke Energy intends to challenge a state Department of Environmental Quality order to excavate all its coal ash pits, saying it would impose undue financial harm.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"With the stresses of aging infrastructure and recent proof that storms can devastate water infrastructure, we must provide utilities with funding to strengthen water and sewer systems,"
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 @ 10:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bladen County Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser approved a consent order Monday holding the Chemours chemical manufacturer accountable for release of GenX and other PFAS emerging contaminants which have polluted the Cape Fear River Basin and surrounding groundwater.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Representative Beverly G. Boswell (R-Dare) announced today legislation she plans to file during the upcoming 2018 short legislative session to reestablish the northern N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) water testing laboratory in Dare County
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2018 @ 11:57 pm
By: Beverly Gwyn Boswell
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The 2017 fall semester has seen the largest freshman class at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in five years, and now the overall enrollment numbers have exceeded the admissions goal
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2017 @ 1:31 pm
By: Bill Cook
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