NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 @ 7:04 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Department of Administration (NCDOA) has released a new policy that updates design and construction requirements for new state government and university buildings in flood-prone areas for the first time in over thirty years.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 8:42 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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ECU team helping to identify a centuries-old shipwreck
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 12:35 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU researchers lead efforts to understand dynamic coastal interactions
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2022 @ 8:45 am
By: ECU News Services
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 266 to improve the resilience of state buildings against flooding. The Order directs the North Carolina Department of Administration (NC DOA) to work with stakeholders to update the state’s Uniform Floodplain Management Policy.
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2022 @ 11:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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ECU receives $5 million to strengthen coastal communities
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 3:16 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Leaders discuss success, future vision of Outer Banks Campus
Published: Thursday, May 27th, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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ECU research team awarded $1.5M grant to study watershed resiliency
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A nearly $300,000 grant will allow a team of researchers from East Carolina University to look at sea level rise and its impact on coastal communities.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 @ 6:53 am
By: ECU News Services
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Growing up in Pitt County, Dr. Randall Etheridge had heard of Lake Mattamuskeet but admits he didn’t know much about its environmental importance.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 3:44 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Government regulation is a subject as dry as the desert sands to most people.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During his March 11 campaign stop in Raleigh, Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., warned of planetary devastation from climate change unless the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy to renewable forms of power
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While environmental activists believe New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigations of oil giant Exxon Mobil and coal producer Peabody Energy could develop into a multistate class-action matter on the scale of the lawsuit against cigarette makers, North Carolina has not joined...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A column this week in The News & Observer argues for the North Carolina Senate to reject a measure that would direct environmental officials to develop a state implementation plan with pending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I cannot believe I am sending this out, however, the Five "P's" dictate that I send this out to keep you Informed.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2011, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission submitted a report forecasting sea level rise along the coast for the next three decades.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We've provided extensive coverage of the political drama around the state Sea Level Rise (SLR) panel and its revision - mandated by the GOP majority in the legislature - of the projected sea level rise on the North Carolina coast.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 6:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A new grant will allow East Carolina University and partner institutions to address a saltwater issue affecting the ecosystems and economy of eastern North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 6:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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We've got a sloppy-fat, jheri-curled "preacher" and the Phish fan club banging pots and pans and hollering in the legislative building. We've got leftist groups bogging down McCrory administration agencies with document requests and lawsuits.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 9:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Frogs, fossils and jellyfish were among the popular activities for visitors at the annual Earth Day Expo April 8 in the Howell Science Complex at East Carolina University.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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As you probably know, I've been actively involved with environmental issues for over thirty years. I've learned a lot from dealing with many thousands of people over this time.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 1:32 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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The N&O's Craig Jarvis has me puzzled with his latest piece on Skvarla, entitled "What's Skvarla Think About Global Warming?"
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2013 @ 4:28 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission's (CRC) forecast of sea level rise from climate change is far greater than the consensus estimate of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 9:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If predictions of more than three feet of rising sea levels by 2100 have you ready to flee from your beach house, a leading climate scientist might be ready to take your place on the North Carolina coast. He explains why in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2012 @ 7:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 1962 when Rachel Carson wrote her ground breaking book "Silent Spring" a lot of things in the environmental arena that needed to be changed got changed - mostly for the better.
Published: Wednesday, August 15th, 2012 @ 6:06 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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The 2012 Legislative Session was especially notable for authorizing legislation to set the stage for energy exploration in North Carolina. The legislature also passed several important bills to limit job-killing environmental regulations, while maintaining environmental protection.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 9:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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And while this is my byline, and while all of words expressed below may have well been mine - they are not - most are from citizen Warren Smith.
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Environmental pressure groups, activist scientists, and the legacy media are predictably upset by the movement of a bill through the N.C. General Assembly that requires state policies dependent on sea level forecasts to be based on historical trends, rather than speculative computer projections.
Published: Sunday, June 17th, 2012 @ 4:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We address the much belated Beaufort County EDC report, now finally submitted, through contributor Warren Smith's correspondence to Beaufort County Commissioner Al Klemm.
Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 @ 6:26 pm
By: Warren Smith
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On Feb. 19, 2012 the lead article in the WDN tells us that according to the intrepid chairman of NC-20 (a coalition of 20 eastern North Carolina counties) "We killed sea level rise inflation".
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
By: Jim Bispo
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State officials are pressuring local governments to plan for a one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, even though many independent scientists have argued the rise is highly unlikely if not impossible.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 @ 1:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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