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Keystone XL poses threat to South Carolina coast
2014-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Battle Creek Enquirer: Secretary of State John Kerry needs to talk with U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. Better yet, he should come see the South Carolina coast firsthand. Last year, Jewell toured Bulls Island and witnessed how only a 1-foot rise in sea level over the last century has turned a vibrant hardwood island into a boneyard beach. The same disaster situation from even faster-rising seas is facing South Carolinas vibrant tourism economy, from Cherry Grove at the North to Beaufort in the South. Only it...
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E.P.A. Agrees to Join North Carolina in Reviewing Spill
2014-03-22 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The federal Environmental Protection Agency will join North Carolina regulators in addressing potential violations of the Clean Water Act at Duke Energy power plants, including a massive spill of toxic coal ash last month in the Dan River, state officials said on Friday. The secretary of the states Department of Environment and Natural Resources, John Skvarla, invited the federal agencys participation and coordination in a March 14 letter to the head of its regional office, the state department...
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North Carolina to withdraw Duke Energy settlement over coal ash spill
2014-03-21 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: North Carolina regulators say they have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve environmental violations by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50bn company clean up its pollution. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources said in a statement on Friday that it would scuttle the proposed consent order to settle violations for groundwater contamination leeching from coal ash dumps near Charlotte and Asheville....
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North Carolina Says Utility Pumped Millions of Gallons of Ash Waste in River
2014-03-21 03:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Duke Energy, the electric utility whose massive spill of toxic coal ash into a river six weeks ago is part of a federal investigation, illegally pumped as much as 61 million gallons of coal-ash wastewater into a second river from September to last week, North Carolina regulators charged on Thursday. Both the accidental spill and the deliberate releases occurred not far upstream from municipal drinking-water intakes. The utilitys officials have said that the pumping was part of preparations for...
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Call for Action on Pig Carcass Disposal from PED in North Carolina
2014-03-21 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NORTH CAROLINA, US - Waterkeeper Alliance has called on North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, to use the power of his office to regulate and oversee the swine industry’s handling of dead pigs resulting from Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) in the state instead of allowing unsupervised individual facilities to manage the emergency themselves.
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