by Acacia | Jun 12, 2019 | EJ Issues
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...
by Acacia | Apr 12, 2019 | Coal Ash, EJ Issues, Partner Organizations
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...
by Acacia | Feb 5, 2019 | CAFOs, EJ Indicators, EJ Issues
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has been required to develop an environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool. They are currently accepting public input on the tool. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how you can help! When one heavily polluting...
by Acacia | Jan 22, 2019 | EJ Issues, Partner Organizations
The Rachel Carson Council’s new report, Clear Cut, takes a comprehensive look at the forces driving the wood pellet industry’s hold in the United States. Industrial-scale wood pellets have been globally touted as a ‘green’ technology to lessen dependence on fossil...
by southeastej | Oct 24, 2018 | EJ Issues
ACT Against Coal Ash has gotten funding to provide certified testing of any apparent coal ash, hog, human or livestock waste or fuel contamination that is suspected in the vicinity of a drinking water well as a result of flooding, or Florence-related damage, or other...
by southeastej | Oct 23, 2018 | EJ Issues
The following text is from Christine Lawson, Program Manager, Animal Feeding Operations Program, NC Dept. of Environmental Quality: The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has rescheduled the day-long stakeholder event originally planned for Oct. 4 and cancelled...
