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Preventing Environmental Hazards Act a commonsense bill
Guest opinion by Congressman Greg Murphy: Allowing National Flood Insurance Program payouts to remove a threatened oceanfront structure before it collapses, rather than wait until it creates an environmental disaster, will add flexibility while mitigating risks.
Spotlight
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NAACP joins fight for Chemours to disclose documents
The NAACP New Hanover County Branch’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Chemours and its predecessor company DuPont is the latest is an ongoing fight to keep public thousands of pages of documents.
News Briefs
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Coastal Land Trust completes purchase of ‘The Point’
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust will own and manage the nearly 150-acre tract at the south end of Topsail Island until it is transferred to the state, where it will remain development free.
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NAACP joins fight for Chemours to disclose documents
The NAACP New Hanover County Branch’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Chemours and its predecessor company DuPont is the latest is an ongoing fight to keep public thousands of pages of documents.
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Power outage times expected to improve in Ocracoke
Tideland Electric’s Project Ocracoke Resiliency will include installing underground electrical lines and equipment to help improve resilience against severe weather.
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Hurricane preparedness expo set for May 5 in Morehead City
There is no charge to attend the family-friendly event that organizers say offers a “comprehensive resource event for hurricane preparedness ahead of hurricane season,” which is June 1 to Nov. 30.
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Maritime Museum to host wooden boat show, heritage talks
The Wooden Boat Show May 3 in downtown Beaufort is expected to feature classic, modern, motorized and self-powered vessels, miniature vintage outboard motors, children’s interactive stations, nautical rope demonstrations, and sea shanties with Bob Zentz.
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Special Report
Legacy chemicals: Pressure builds on state to protect drinking water
These pollutants do not readily degrade, and now as the federal government makes a hard-right turn toward deregulation, what will state officials do to fill the public health protection gap?
News & Features
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Senate bill pushes for prohibiting, fining for balloon releases
After lobbying, letter writing, cajoling and presentations, “one-woman crusader” Debbie Swick of Southern Shores has seen her efforts to ban balloon releases become a bipartisan-supported senate bill.
Science
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Satellite tracking study aims to unlock more red drum secrets
A project now in its second year seeks to temporarily tag and track by satellite 40 of the saltwater species so popular with recreational anglers could help fill data gaps that decades of research studies have so far left open.
Commentary
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Preventing Environmental Hazards Act a commonsense bill
Guest opinion by Congressman Greg Murphy: Allowing National Flood Insurance Program payouts to remove a threatened oceanfront structure before it collapses, rather than wait until it creates an environmental disaster, will add flexibility while mitigating risks.
Our Coast
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Historian David Cecelski: Carolina coast still worth the fight
The recent shackling of the Environmental Protection Agency “foreshadows the breathtaking descent back into the worst days of our coastal past, when our estuaries, our beaches, our fisheries and the sources of our drinking water were a free-for-all, open to plunder, pillaging and poisoning.”
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Fishing hooked newspaperman Rip Woodin far from coast
Rocky Mount Telegram Publisher Rip Woodin, who spends free time at his Atlantic Beach getaway, didn’t grow up fishing, but a gift of a fly rod from his boss in Wyoming decades ago lit the passion.
Featured Photo
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Coastal calf suns on a bed of flowers
A calf lies in a field of spring flowers near the Haystacks area of Morehead City in Carteret County. Photo: Dylan Ray
