Democratic Governor Roy Cooper will likely veto the bill if it passes in the legislature, but it could be used to appeal to voters ahead of the November midterm elections if Republican candidates fold its contents into their rhetoric.
COVID will still dominate the news cycle, bringing with it implications for major institutions in our state, plus the Medicaid transformation rolls along, and PFAS will continue to trouble North Carolina waterways.
Hog farms are exempt from nuisance suits, as long as the state has not cited them for civil or criminal penalties for water quality violations in the past three years; the law does not consider degraded air quality as a nuisance.