Morning Posts for the Week of September 15, 2014
Morning Posts published in the Carolina Mercury September 15-19, 2014 Monday Good morning — Back to the grind. Elections & Politics • Ballot breakdown: Catawba College’s Michael Bitzer breaks down...
View ArticleDuke Energy spends big on governors
The Charlotte Observer is out with a story this morning on Duke Energy’s contributions to the Republican Governors Association confirming a new report by Democracy NC that Duke Energy upped its...
View ArticleClimate change maps show NC views vary widely
Climate change opinion maps highlight the challenges for North Carolina policy makers, show influence of local impacts
View ArticleSaturday Evening Post August 10-16
Good evening, Welcome to the first, official Saturday Evening Post. We’re working on it. Weekend Reads U.S. & World • NYT — Excess in Iowa: 90°, a Butter Cow and Rides on Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleBig changes could be afoot in North Carolina environmental laws
Who needs clean air anyways? State legislators don't seem to think it's too important, according to environmental groups.
View ArticlePig waste leads to intersex fish study says
A new study shows that pig waste runoff from lagoons is causing intersex fish in North Carolina rivers. Who would have thought? This research was in part spurred by a U.S. Geological Survey study in...
View ArticleStar News: ‘Don’t blow up the Rocks’
‘The list of possible bad things that could happen from blowing a hole in The Rocks is long and pretty specific,’ says a new editorial out today by StarNews Online. The man-made rock wall between...
View ArticleHardin-Nieri: ‘The time is now to preserve all of creation’
Asheville Citizen Times – Heeding Pope Francis on environment Science and religion haven’t always mixed but a new editorial by Scott Hardin-Nieri in the Asheville Citizen Times shows a growing...
View ArticleConference report on H765 released
Here’s the conference report on H765, the Regulatory Reform Act of 2015, released on Thursday, September 24. Adoption of the report is on the Senate calendar for Monday. Some controversial provisions...
View ArticleChavis Jr.: Environmental racism alive and well
The term environmental racism was coined by Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. in the 1980s but the problem persists says Chavis Jr. in a new editorial. Frost Illustrated – Why we must fight for environmental...
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