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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A three-judge panel has rejected Gov. Roy Cooper's proposed injunction against recent action from the state Environmental Management Commission.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 1:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to suitably report billions of dollars in fiscal 2022 spending, the agency’s inspector general determined, prompting condemnation from GOP lawmakers.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 11:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s no-more-stringent law forbids state environmental agencies from imposing stricter environmental regulations than required by the federal government
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over two dozen Republican attorneys general are challenging a proposed rule from the New York Stock Exchange that they say would illegally implement a radical environmentalist agenda and harm national security.
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 11:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Biden administration is allocating $600 million toward “environmental justice” projects across the U.S. in a move critics say will benefit the president’s political allies.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 7:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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From December through mid-August, 60 large whales have washed ashore East Coast beaches, coinciding with the issuance of several federal permits for whale “harassment” as a consequence of offshore wind energy development activities
Published: Monday, December 25th, 2023 @ 3:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 292 directing bold action to advance environmental justice.
Published: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 11:21 am
By: Governor's Office
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President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Friday compelling the entire federal government to focus on addressing “environmental justice.”
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023 @ 1:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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environmental extremism run amok
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023 @ 9:44 am
By: John Steed
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On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate passed House Bill 750 (H.B. 750), a bill that prohibits the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria from being a factor in state investment decisions, by a vote of 29-18.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 8:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas, a move which some energy experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs for households.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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EPA officials provided the state of California authority on Friday to phase out heavy duty trucks powered by gasoline over the next two decades.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 7:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new vehicle emissions standards on Wednesday that would aim to increase adoption of electric cars and battle climate change.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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EU-inspired restrictions would put many of them out of business
Published: Friday, March 3rd, 2023 @ 2:17 pm
By: John Steed
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Environmental extremists want to regulate gas-fired stoves, heaters, water heaters, and other appliances out of existence
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2023 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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‘I’d Rather Give Those Jobs To Americans’: Crenshaw Rips Biden, Environmentalists On Blocking MiningTexas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw confronted the Biden administration and environmentalists on Wednesday, saying that they are putting the nation at risk because of their hostility to mining.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 5:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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One environmentalist is speaking out with his “confessions” of previously promoting the Left’s climate change agenda.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 10:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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On May 16, Duke Energy filed the Carolinas Carbon Plan with the N.C. Utilities Commission. The plan calls for N.C. to become "carbon neutral" by 2050.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 4:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrat 'green' spending bill comes with environmental costs
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 4:27 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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What do we do to rein in the N.C. Supreme Court? As I recommended in a previous article, we set up a process that allows the state legislature to override N.C. Supreme court decisions that are interfere with the legislature's enumerate authority to make laws as long as they do not violate the...
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:31 am
By: Alan Harrop
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in West Virginia v. The Environmental Protection Agency that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the constitutional authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 10:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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would put a third of farmers out of business
Published: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 10:33 am
By: John Steed
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Russians have been funding major US climate alarmist groups
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Steed
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With a given law, sometimes clever hucksters, devious minds, and malicious enforcers and officials can twist “legal” implications out of it that clearly were never intended.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recommendations will aid communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19
Published: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 @ 1:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pirate intern monitors environmental health of region’s rivers
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 10:11 am
By: ECU News Services
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House Bill 951 would retire coal plants, increase natural gas, and mandate increases in renewable capacity, but high costs and erosion of N.C. Utilities Commission authorities unite stakeholders in opposition.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new state law streamlines permitting for hog farms that capture biogas, and it moves some control over farming regulations to the local level.
Published: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper appointed Elizabeth Biser to lead the Department of Environmental Quality as Secretary.
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 8:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The N.C. Senate on Thursday, June 3, voted not to confirm Dionne Delli-Gatti to lead the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 10:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A former South Carolina congressman says it’s possible to get N.C. conservatives to back a carbon tax and other progressive climate change policies if the left uses an economic argument to do so.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 11:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that Dionne Delli-Gatti will replace EPA Administrator Designate Michael Regan as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality.
Published: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 @ 12:10 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Doug Domenech explains for Federalist readers key Trump administration environmental achievements that attract little attention from the Biden team.
Published: Friday, February 12th, 2021 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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