Trista Talton

Nearly all who spoke Tuesday during a public hearing in Fayetteville criticized the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission’s proposed industrial discharge rules fail to protect the drinking water supply of people who live farther down the Cape Fear River.

Densely allocated shellfish leases and the resulting conflicts and complaints have prompted a yearslong pause on new leases in New Hanover County and other nearby waters, and Topsail Island officials say a temporary moratorium on new leases is also needed in Stump Sound in Onslow and Pender counties.

Coal ash excavated at Duke Energy’s Sutton Steam Plant in Wilmington was placed into the above on-site landfill, with that work completed in 2019. Photo: Duke Energy

About 230 crowded into Wilmington's Skyline Center Thursday for the Environmental Management Commission's hearing and dozens spoke, often angrily, about proposed PFAS monitoring and minimization rules.

It remains unclear why it was done, but the large-scale flattening of protective primary frontal dune at a newly built 12-bedroom, $6 million house in Emerald Isle has town officials eyeing stiffer penalties.

Waterkeepers Carolina created the guide with support from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, to provide options to protect water quality and flood protection that local governments can consider when implementing in land use rules.

Military veteran Thomas Marcinowski's final wishes to be interred beneath the waves prompted him to form a nonprofit that enables others who served to have their cremains interred in eco-positive reef modules, including nine whose ashes are to be placed on the seafloor Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is wasting no time in advancing its plans to eliminate and reevaluate enforceable standards for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including the compound branded GenX found in the drinking water sources of tens of thousands of North Carolinians.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead with plans to strike down the nation's first-ever health standards for chemical contaminants found in the drinking water sources of millions of North Carolinians.

"I’m trying to help the public with their problems related to climate," says Dr. Jared Bowden, a Rocky Mount native who became director of the North Carolina State Climate Office early this month.