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The ACP Was Canceled but We Still Lost Our Land
This guest blog was written by Bill and Lynn Limpert. Bill volunteers with POWHR. There’s nothing like winning a pipeline fight after years of community advocacy. Defeating the Atlantic Coast […]
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Democrats’ climate hopes are riding on a new environmental justice bill
By: Yvette Cabrera, Grist February 16, 2022 With the Build Back Better Act frozen in Congress, Democrats now see their best hope in tackling environmental disparities lies in the Environmental Justice for […]
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Celebrating & Investing In North Carolina’s Black-Owned Businesses Year Round
Sonyah Spencer’s Urban Reader Bookstore contains over 3,000 books – all written by black authors One way Clean Water for NC staff honors Black History Month this February is by […]
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Black History Month Through Books!
Clean Water for NC celebrates Black History Month this year through the lens of published works exploring the central role Black people in America have had in shaping our country […]
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What the Winston-Salem fire says about environmental justice in North Carolina
By: Adam Wagner, News & ObserverFebruary 7, 2022 Ruby Gordon was already in bed last Monday night when she got the first call notifying her to evacuate her home in […]
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Court Stops MVP From Tearing Through Jefferson National Forest
By: Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) Richmond, VA – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision that vacates prior decisions made by the […]
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Clean Water for NC has a new NC Energy Digest!
Clean Water has introduced our new NC Energy Digest, with weekly news about North Carolina’s energy landscape. This digest will combine two of our existing digests into one, and explores news and […]
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EPA launches civil rights inquiry into DEQ’s permitting of biogas systems on hog farms
By: Lisa Sorg, NC Policy Watch January 14, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency is opening an investigation into whether state regulators violated civil rights law when last spring, they granted permits to […]
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Honoring Dr. King, His Legacy, and the Work that Remains
We recognize the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. not only on the third Monday of January, but all year round. Environmental Justice is Social Justice, and this January […]
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Biden Administration Announces Crackdown on Toxic Coal Ash Pollution
By: Earth Justice, January 11 For the first time, the federal government is enforcing rules that require the coal industry to clean up toxic coal ash waste. This pollution can […]
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