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The Pandemic’s Unequal Impact on North Carolina Water Utilities and Their Customers
A new report depicts the financial challenges of providing water service in unprecedented times.
The pandemic has resulted in a range of experiences for water utilities in North Carolina and their customers. Photo by Fran Jacquier on Unsplash
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue
Early last summer, when economists feared that the financial consequences of the pandemic could be nearly as severe as the Great Depression, Sharen Apple received a phone call offering help.
Apple is the accounting manager for Jamestown, a community of just over 4,000 people in Guilford County, North Carolina. The caller, from Summit Church, said that church members wanted to do a good deed: they wanted to pay off the debts of residents who had fallen behind on their water bills.
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2021 Reed Awards Honor Great Writing About the Southeast’s Fragile Coast
February 11, 2021 GMT
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Two writers who have delved into the past and present challenges facing treasured places on the Southeast coast will receive the 2021 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awards from the Southern Environmental Law Center. SELC will present the awards March 25 during this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book.
In the book category, former Georgia state legislator Paul Bolster will receive the Reed Award for Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. In the journalism category, Tony Bartelme of The Post and Courier in Charleston will receive the Reed Award for his in-depth reporting on South Carolina’s coastal environment, including communities where the damaging impacts of climate change are happen
Top Biden Climate Advisor, Others Preview 2021 Energy and Enviro News
. A recording of the 2021 Journalists’ Guide Event can be found here.
White House climate advisor Gina McCarthy gave an exclusive preview of the Biden administration’s Jan. 27 rollout of climate initiatives to more than 1,100 journalists, environmental experts and others watching a virtual program organized the same day by Society of Environmental Journalists.
The SEJ’s ninth annual Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment look-ahead event, entirely online due to the pandemic, was hosted for the second year by the National Geographic Society and co-sponsored by the Wilson Center.
Even as President Biden was introducing his massive climate plan at a “Climate Day” media event at the White House (check out the subsequent news coverage), McCarthy made her SEJ appearance in a pre-taped interview with CBS News’ Jeff Berardelli.