…associated with climate change. DEQ increased equity, transparency and environmental protection in the permitting of swine operations under the 2018 Title VI settlement agreement with citizen groups, which expired on May 3, 2020. The state’s Environmental Education Program expanded its environmental justice, equity, diversity and inclusion offerings as part of…
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EJ Committee Public Listening Session Set
…changes to state law to better address environmental justice, equity and inclusion concerns. Michael Regan “We recognize the need for legislative changes to adequately address environmental justice concerns and the need for improved coordination efforts across state agencies to ensure communities of color are treated equitably,” said subcommittee Chair, state…
NAACP: Port Study Ignores Heritage Corridor
…individuals in our community and other (environmental justice) communities in a meaningful way to solicit their input on this project,” the letter states. The organization also asks the Corps to identify environmental justice communities within and adjacent to the project area and evaluate impacts associated with increased river and highway…
Navassa: From Guano to Creosote
…directors and as the federation’s representative on the Southeastern North Carolina Environmental Justice Coalition. She said the number of contamination sites in and around Navassa is “mind boggling” considering the size of the community, which covers 14 square miles and includes about 1,500 residents. Veronica Carter “If you’re talking environmental…
Input needed on EJ communities’ access to state agencies
…can use to create their own plans. The Regulatory Assistance Project is to develop the model. The order also directs cabinet agencies to name an environmental justice and equity lead. Cabinet agency leads have been appointed and are listed on the Cabinet Agency Environmental Justice and Equity Leads website, which…
Supreme Court ruling will not stop NC’s required CO2 cuts
…legalese. You basically have to be a lawyer with some expertise in utilities law even to be able to understand what’s going on, and so I think there is a problem from an environmental justice standpoint, which is that the process itself is not in line with environmental justice in…
Fish study’s findings trigger consumption advisory update
…the two soon found they had common interest in environmental justice issues. “They’d already done some work on how people were consuming fish in the Cape Fear River, particularly the lower Cape Fear,” Rajaee said. Their discussions of environmental justice evolved into how they could look further into sustenance fishing…
Administration unveils $3B plan for cleaner air near ports
…Program.” The funding through the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022, “will advance environmental justice by reducing diesel pollution from U.S. ports in surrounding communities, while creating good-paying jobs,” according to the EPA. Regan said the money will go to purchase zero-emissions port equipment…
Federation to Honor 10 Coastal Stewards
…and is past president of Cape Fear Citizens for a Safe Environment. She also is on the state Department of Environmental Quality Secretary’s Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board. Boardd members William Barber III, left, and Veronica Carter greet attendees at the Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board ceremony in…
Groups challenge NC’s biogas general permit for hog farms
…the state’s new general biogas permits. The Environmental Justice Community Action Network and Cape Fear River Watch are taking to task the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, challenging the agency’s digester waste management system general permits, which allow concentrated feeding animal operations, or CAFOs, to use what the groups…
Coastal Sketch: Catlin Goes to Raleigh
…of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, Catlin’s been snubbed by way of being omitted from serving on conference committees on environmental issues. “I technically understand the environmental issues, while other people understand the political environmental issues,” he said. “It’s just politics and I’m an environmental…
DEQ Secretary Michael Regan to Head EPA
Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan speaks to drilling opponents at an anti-offshore oil rally in Raleigh in 2018. Photo: Kirk Ross President-elect Joe Biden has nominated North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Citing the toll exacted by the “undeniable,…