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Fracking, Offshore drilling bill passes NC Senate

After a brief debate the NC Senate has passed an energy bill that sets up offshore drilling and fracking for natural gas in NC. The [...]
May 10, 2011 | Posted in: Energy, Environment, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Budget cuts hampering firefighters at Alligator River

An infuriating bit of information this morning courtesy of a Virginia Pilot story about the wildfire in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, which has [...]
May 10, 2011 | Posted in: Budget, Current Events, Environment | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The fruits of those ideological differences

in 2000 BP was under pressure to improve this well in 2003 the government dropped its objections Story here.
May 1, 2010 | Posted in: Energy, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Volcanic memories

Via Nate Silver so many months ago: While some of the projects in the [stimulus] bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. [...]
April 17, 2010 | Posted in: Current Events, Environment, Research | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Journalism

Fair and balanced? Paragraph One and Two Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month. Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that [...]
July 3, 2009 | Posted in: Energy, Environment | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Ruin on the coast

The Senate endorses folly. Via Chris’ Selling our sand and threatening our coast: With virtually no debate, the Senate approved a change to North Carolina’s [...]
May 3, 2009 | Posted in: 2010 Elections, Current Events, Environment | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Your tax dollars at, uh, work

Again I must ask: Why in these times of tough budgets is the state Division of Air Quality trying to get me to click on [...]
March 3, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Bill of the Day: Disapprove Jordan Lake Rules

HB3 wins the honors today for the audacity of nope. The bill would “disapprove” the Jordan Lake rules, which will require serious changes in stormwater [...]
February 10, 2009 | Posted in: Environment, Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink