A Durham Resident’s Ongoing Fight Against Lead
Even as lead contamination levels have declined nationally, many low-income households still need remediation assistance.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Air Quality Permit Renewed Without Cap for Heat Input
“This is kind of like your doctor putting you on a diet where you can only eat cookies that have 100 calories or less, but there is no limit on the number of cookies that you can eat.”
North Carolina Petition to Curb Carbon Dioxide Emissions Advances
The state is considering whether to join an initiative that has significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in other eastern states.
A New N.C. State Study Finds Vulnerable Communities Bear the Brunt of Pipelines
The study used data to show that socially vulnerable communities have significantly higher natural gas pipeline densities and are therefore exposed to more pollution and health and safety issues.
Quickbait: Put That in Your Pipeline
The $468 million Mountain Valley Pipeline’s future is murky.
Belinda Joyner Is Tired of Fighting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, But She’s Still Fighting
Northampton, a predominantly Black county, has been a hotbed of environmental activism for more than 25 years. But community members say they’ve been worn down by the Sisyphean task of fighting for a healthy future.
Why Monday’s UN Climate Action Summit Matters
The media and climate activists must “name and shame” laggards, says the UN special envoy.
More Environment Coverage
How Will the Climate Crisis Affect Your Health?
Children, pregnant people, and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine.
Why You Should Join the Climate Strike Friday
Let us count the ways.
As Bigger, Wetter, and More Frequent Hurricanes Become Our New Normal, North Carolina Is Adapting to the Reality of Climate Change
After Florence, everything was different.
Hurricane Dorian Could Cause Catastrophic Flooding in Eastern NC, Home to Hog and Pork Farms
Nothing to worry about, the Pork Council says.
NC Governor Signs ‘Unprecedented’ Executive Order to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The order sets a goal for the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by the year 2025.
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