Southern Environmental Law Center Coverage

GARY PEARCE: Will N.C. get real on climate change?

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -- The question is whether we - the world, the nation and North Carolina - will get real about fighting climate change. In North Carolina, environmentalists want Gov. Roy Cooper to join Virginia and 10 other states to our north in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, like "Reggie").

FRANK HOLLEMAN: Pressure from citizens in coal ash communities won cleanup settlement

Sunday, Jan. 12,2020 -- The heroes are the residents of North Carolina's coal ash communities. They were willing to stand up to institutions of great power, to go to court and testify, to keep up the fight for almost a decade, and insist that their clean water be protected in ways it had never been protected before. At a time when great cynicism is often justified, we should celebrate when democracy works. This time, it did.

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Duke Energy cleans up

Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Environmental groups sue to stop GenX emissions

Environmental groups have turned to a New Hanover County court to force state regulators to completely shut down the emissions of GenX and other unregulated compounds from the Chemours plant south of Fayetteville.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL public records reporter

Environmental lawyers take on DEQ, Chemours over GenX

Frustrated with state regulators, Cape Fear River Watch and the SELC take on Chemours.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Governor, top Duke Energy officials met privately, won't say why

Gov. Pat McCrory hosted a dinner at the executive mansion for top Duke Energy officials in June even as the state was suing the company over its handling of coal ash.

Mark Binker