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Ag report on transfers

Interesting report from David Smith at the Department of Agriculture at the early November meeting of the Legislature’s Environmental Review Commission. Some of the difficulties [...]
December 16, 2011 | Posted in: Agriculture, Current Events, DENR, General Assembly | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Sea change

This month’s Exile on Jones Street column, published Wednesday July 20 in the Independent Weekly, is about the changes in public policy as a result [...]
July 24, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, DENR, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Senate budget hits Clean Water Trust Fund

Little doubt that the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, one of the chief sources of funding for land protection and conservation, water and sewer projects [...]
May 25, 2011 | Posted in: DENR, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

DENR cuts — a receipts-supported agency?

One aspect of the budget proposal that is troublesome is a move to require most of DENR’s workforce to be supported by either matching federal [...]
May 19, 2011 | Posted in: Budget, DENR, Environment, Legislation | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Budget cuts and the environment

Following are a series of posts on specific proposed cuts in the budget that will threaten environmental protection, land conservation and long standing programs aimed [...]
May 19, 2011 | Posted in: Columns, DENR, Environment, General Assembly, NCHouse | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink