NC SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES TO REJECT COOPER NOMINEE TO RUN DEQ: A state Senate committee voted Wednesday to reject the nomination of Dionne Delli-Gatti, Gov. Roy Cooper’s nominee to head the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality. The vote represents the first time the Senate has moved not to confirm a cabinet-level secretary since the process was created following Cooper’s
Jun. 2 A Senate committee voted Wednesday to reject the nomination of Dionne Delli-Gatti, Gov. Roy Cooper's nominee to head the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality. Sen. Paul Newton, a Cabarrus County Republican, made the motion. The vote represents the first time the Senate has moved to not confirm a cabinet-level secretary since the process was created following Cooper's victory in .
The base map from the CDC shows the degree of social vulnerability by county. The dark blue areas are the most socially vulnerable and the light green is the least. The overlay of the red line represents the approximate route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project. It would traverse two socially vulnerable counties Rockingham and Alamance as well as part of Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation tribal lands, north of Burlington.
Four academic researchers, including Ryan Emanuel and Louie Rivers III of NC State University, have found that of the 2,261 U.S. counties traversed by natural gas pipelines, counties with more socially vulnerable populations have significantly higher pipeline densities than those less socially vulnerable.