North Carolina Reissues Denial of Water Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline
CHAPEL HILL, NC Today the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality reaffirmed its denial of water quality certification to Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC for construction of its Southgate Project gas pipeline.
The State initially denied Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request for water quality certification in August 2020, stating the project was “inconsistent” with North Carolina’s water quality certification and riparian buffer regulations. If built, the Southgate pipeline would cut through 50 miles of rural North Carolina, trenching through hundreds of streams and wetlands and polluting the Haw River and its tributaries.
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10 Black climate leaders fighting for environmental and racial justice
This Earth Day, we re celebrating just a few #BlackandGreen leaders who ve made a mark on the climate movement. (L-R) Environmental activists Leah Thomas
and Rue Mapp; and EPA Administrator Michael Regan (Photo:
Contrary to what we see in the mainstream, the climate movement is not predominantly white. Though a failure to tell a full history and a lack of racial representation within the organizational sphere, persists, the truth is, Black people have long been stewards for the planet.
In celebration of
Earth Day,
theGrio is highlighting just a few leaders who’ve made a lasting impact in conservation, to climate science, government administration and grassroots organizing.
State Sen. Natasha Marcus - (D) NC - District 41 said.
Sen. Marcus said no one yet knows exactly how much gasoline has spilled. In its release, NCDEQ said it has given Colonial until April 26 to file an accurate report.
“Colonial is required to provide a revised Comprehensive Site Assessment (CSA) by April 26 in response to the February Notice of Continuing Violation, which identified 22 deficiencies in Colonial’s CSA and directed Colonial Pipeline to extend residential private well sampling radius an additional 500 feet,” the release said.
Sen. Marcus has also taken action, filing Senate Bill 549 which aims to improve pipeline safety, by providing funding to the NCDEQ to allow for state-level monitoring. As it stands currently, North Carolina relies on Colonial Pipeline for monitoring.
Thereâs a Booming Business in Americaâs Forests. Some Arenât Happy About It.
The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, itâs a polluter and destroyer of nature.
A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit.
Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff
Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry.
April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
GARYSBURG, N.C. â In 2013, Kathy Claiborne got a noisy new neighbor. Thatâs when a huge factory that dries and presses wood into roughly cigarette-filter-sized pellets roared to life near her tidy home in one of the stateâs poorest counties. On a recent afternoon in her front yard, near the end of a cul-de-sac, the mill rumbled like an uncomfortably close jet engine.