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NC Newsline Environmental Reporter Lisa Sorg spoke with 97.9 The Hill's Andrew Stuckey on Thursday, May 16.

Ratepayers plead with NC Utilities Commission to reject Duke Energy’s carbon plan By Lisa Sorg Bobby Jones, a founder of the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition in Goldsboro, had been seated for less than five minutes when he bolted from his bench. “This hearing is a farce!” Jones said, as a […] The post Weekend reads: On protests, pipes and and power appeared first on NC Newsline.

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The state Department of Environmental Quality is advising the public to avoid fishing, swimming or wading in a portion of Swift Creek in Craven County because waste from a hog farm has polluted the waterway. Saint John Farm in Grifton, which raises hogs for Smithfield Foods, is responsible for the release, according to DEQ. On […] The post DEQ: Stay out of Swift Creek in Craven County because of hog waste spill appeared first on NC Newsline.

Bobby Jones, a founder of the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition in Goldsboro, had been seated for less than five minutes when he bolted from his bench. “This hearing is a farce!” Jones said, as a Durham County Sheriff’s deputy led him from the seventh-floor courtroom. “You’re in cahoots with Duke […] The post Ratepayers plead with NC Utilities Commission to reject Duke Energy’s carbon plan appeared first on NC Newsline.