…their West African homes, enslaved in plantations along the southern Atlantic Coast, and their lives in the coastal plains after abolition. Brayton Willis, acting chair of the Brunswick County Branch of the NAACP’s environmental and climate justice committee, said the quest to connect the corridor with the East Coast Greenway…
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Court Ruling No Guarantee for Red Wolves
…the impact of the ruling were referred to the U.S. Department of Justice, which did not respond to emailed questions. The ruling stated that there no impediment for the court providing relief to plaintiffs “pending publication of a final rule.” Released this summer, the “Proposed Revision of the 10(j) Rule…
State submits plan to spend remaining VW Settlement funds
…to an announcement Wednesday. The VW Settlement is an agreement between the German automaker and the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency. States must develop plans for using their settlement funds and submit them for approval to the trustee, according to NCDEQ. The state’s beneficiary mitigation…
VW funds available to replace older transit, shuttle buses
…between the German automaker and the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency. These settlements resolve allegations that Volkswagen violated the Clean Air Act by the sale of approximately 590,000 model year 2009 to 2016 diesel motor vehicles equipped with “defeat devices,” the EPA states on…
Four coastal towns to get VW money for car chargers
Four coastal towns, Surf City, Jacksonville, Hampstead and Leland, are among those selected to receive money from the latest round of awards from the Volkswagen settlement, to be used to install publicly accessible zero-emission vehicle chargers. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality is awarding $255,000…
DEQ to invest $6.8M in electric vehicle charging network
…in grants and rebates will be awarded under phase 2 of the N.C. Volkswagen Settlement Program. DEQ manages the state’s share of the VW Settlement, an agreement between the German automaker and the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency. In phase 1 of the settlement, nearly $30 million…
Gov. Cooper appoints new board, commission members
…her own real estate firm, Teresa Batts Real Estate LLC. To the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission, Cooper appointed Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson of Raleigh and Kevin Lee Tweedy of Cary. Gibson, who has special training and scientific expertise in hydrology and water pollution control, is the department head and…
Coastal NC projects selected for $7M in federal grants
…Atlantic Coastal Plain. Anthropocene Alliance, a national coalition of communities fighting for environmental and climate justice, has been awarded $397,900, Matching funds are $308,400. The funds are for 10 community-based organizations in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to address issues of climate risk, displacement, relocation and the deployment of nature-based…
2020 Resilience Plan Faces Climate Change
The comprehensive plan to address North Carolina’s vulnerability to climate change has been submitted to Gov. Roy Cooper. The state Department of Environmental Quality, on behalf of the Climate Change Interagency Council, submitted the North Carolina Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan officials announced Tuesday. “Climate change impacts the health,…
Group to Screen Offshore Drilling Films
…grassroots resistance to offshore drilling in the U.S., at 6:45 p.m. April 11 at the Oak Island Recreation Center, SE 30th St. and East Oak Island Drive in Oak Island. The six films were curated by Working Films, which produces documentaries intended to advance social justice and environmental protection, and…
Two Indicted in Manteo Dredging Case
Dare County Justice Center. Photo: Dare County Reprinted from the Outer Banks Voice Two former Manteo officials have each been charged with a felony bribery offense related to an informal $50,000 agreement that was part of a 2017-2018 dredging project in Doughs Creek. Lee King Tugwell, 64, and Wayland Hannon…
Land Disputes Stall Sunset Beach Projects
…Riverside Drive. The peninsula was created in the mid-1960s when Gore dredged a series of canals and dumped the dredged material into adjacent wetlands, according to a letter sent by the Sunset Beach Taxpayers Association to the N.C. Department of Justice and the N.C. Department of Administration’s Office of State…