by Acacia | Aug 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Every single year, the wood pellet industry destroys tens of thousands of acres of Southern forests, turns them into wood pellets, and ships them overseas to be burned for electricity in faraway power stations. The world’s largest wood pellet producer, Enviva, is...
by Acacia | Jun 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Acacia | Jun 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 | May 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Acacia | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Acacia | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
