NCEJN Blog
Here you can explore articles and stories that we are telling from the front-lines of climate change.
June Quarterly Meeting
Join us for NCEJN’s second Quarterly Meeting of 2019! BE SURE TO RSVP.
We’ll be discussing Environmental Justice issue updates in North Carolina and learning from impacted communities. Attend to learn more and find out how you can get involved!
Continental breakfast & lunch will be served.
Constitutional Challenge to 711 & 467
NC Environmental Justice Network, Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH), Waterkeepers Alliance, and Winyah Rivers Alliance have filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against industrial hog operations, contending...
DEQ accepting comments on Community Mapping System with Environmental Justice Tool
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is accepting public comment through July 10 on the continued development of the Community Mapping System with Environmental Justice tool. See talking points on the tool. Unveiled last month, the beta release of...
NCEJN’s Statement on Senate Budget Provision on Animal Waste Permits
NC Environmental Justice Network Responds to Senate Budget Provision on Animal Waste Permits · The Senate budget provision extending the existing Swine General Permit is a blatant attempt by industry to block even limited measures to protect people and the...
Chambers Center files Amicus Brief to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the NCEJN & REACH
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) and Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH) filed an amicus brief that provided important racial justice context and legal argument in the pork industry’s appeal of the jury verdict in the first...
Webinar: Bio(gas) Hazards: Dirty Air, Factory Farms and Climate
Join us for an important webinar about why manure-to-energy is a false solution. We’ll look at the flawed economic reasoning behind it, learn about the harms to communities on the front lines of this buildout, and talk about real energy solutions to address the climate crisis. Be sure to RSVP!
N.C. Needs Energy Choice, Not Monopoly Control (Op-Ed)
Check out this op-ed featured in the Goldsboro Daily News, written by our co-director Ayo Wilson & Bobby Jones, with the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition- North Carolina’s electricity system is broken, and the only way to fix it is to...
Swine General Permit Continues Racially Discriminatory Impact
North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality released the state’s Swine Waste Management General Permit today, which governs disposal of the nearly 9.5 billion gallons of hog waste generated each year at the state’s industrial swine operations. NC...
Juliana v. United States: Fossil fuel
On Sunday, March 3, 60 Minutes aired a report about an attorney that filed a lawsuit in 2015 on behalf of a group of 21 children from across the country who want the courts to block the US government from continuing its support of fossil fuels. The case, Juliana vs....
