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Extra pollution controls on Enviva wood pellet plant still don’t address industry’s contributions to climate change

By Lisa Sorg
January 15, 2019
In Environment
Commentary, News

This week’s top stories on NC Policy Watch

By Rob Schofield
December 22, 2018
In Commentary, News
Environment

Former EPA Science Advisory Board member and Duke professor reveals how the agency ignored science to favor wood-pellet industry

By Lisa Sorg
October 24, 2018
In Environment
Commentary

The best editorial of the weekend: Wake up, North Carolina!

By Rob Schofield
October 15, 2018
In Commentary
Environment

This Week in Pollution: Have you read ‘The Road’? 20-year climate change estimates suggest you should.

By Lisa Sorg
October 12, 2018
In Environment
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National civil rights group to intervene in Silent Sam lawsuit

A national civil rights group will intervene on behalf of its clients in the lawsuit that led to the [...]

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Since PFAS are unregulated, no public notification is required. Food packaging could be a source of [...]

U.S. House committee to take up ‘Medicare for All’ legislation

WASHINGTON — Toward the end of his life, the late U.S. Rep. John Dingell Jr. reportedly asked his wi [...]

Monday numbers: Rate of complaint-driven inspections of industrialized livestock operations second-highest in 10 years

Stench and flies. Noise and traffic. Waste flowing into waterways. Manure-infused spray. Complaints [...]

The Leandro report is out. The future of public education in North Carolina starts this week.

For over two decades, North Carolina has systematically violated the constitutional rights of its ch [...]

After Silent Sam settlement, UNC has lost the benefit of the doubt

Last December I condemned the UNC–Chapel Hill Board of Trustees (BOT) proposal to literally enshrine [...]

Trump administration’s destructive cuts to food assistance will harm 700,000 Americans

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