If it didn’t create air pollution, I’d burn my 2020 calendar. A terrible, awful year, despite a few, albeit significant environmental wins.
Climate change, of course, continued unabated. Otherwise, without a massive coal ash spill or major hurricane to capture the public’s attention, the environmental losses were quieter, more piecemeal, albeit also significant: A proposed mine in Caswell County, an approved one in Alamance. A proposed Land Clearing and Inert landfill in Vance County. Yet another wood pellet plant whose air permit was approved by DEQ; it’s near tribal lands in Robeson County. A proposed plant that would convert creosote-treated railroad ties into “biochar” and emit air pollutants near a Black neighborhood in Richmond County.