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Mercury falling
- News & Observer (new window)
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2010-08-14 |
| New federal regulations on cement-plants' emissions of toxic mercury, issued this week by the EPA in Washington, D.C., will have a concrete effect - and a beneficial one - in North Carolina. Notably, Titan America's plans for a big new Portland cement plant near Wilmington will have to be modified to comply with much tougher air-quality regulations - or those plans won't make it off the drawing board. | |
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State should keep fighting TVA for cleaner air
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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2010-07-29 |
| On Monday, a federal appeals court reversed a 2009 ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Lacy H. Thornburg, of Asheville, that called on the Tennessee Valley Authority to speed up pollution-control improvements at coal-fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama. Thornburg had issued the ruling on the grounds the plants are a “public nuisance'' because of their harm on air quality (and the quality of life) in Western North Carolina. | |
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Despite Millions Invested, Cooper Loses TVA Appeal
- Carolina Journal Online (new window)
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2010-07-28 |
| RALEIGH — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has invested $7.7 million in litigating a pollution-control lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority without much to show for it. | |
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Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency OKs air permit for North Buncombe concrete plant
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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2010-06-25 |
| Despite strong public opposition, the board of the Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency on Thursday approved an air quality permit for a controversial concrete plant proposed for a site north of Weaverville. | |
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Swain County to air proposed zoning ordinance
- The Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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2010-06-02 |
| In March Swain County commissioners voted to enact a moratorium that put a halt to Duke Energy’s substation project on a hill overlooking the Cherokee mound site, Kituwah. | |
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Cement plant draws scrutiny
- The News & Observer (new window)
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2010-01-19 |
| An international company has plans for a major industrial development that would bring 160 jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue to an area near the southeastern coast of North Carolina. | |
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Triangle air quality improved this summer
- News & Observer (new window)
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2009-10-07 |
| Your eyes and lungs are not fooling you. North Carolina's air quality this summer was the best it's been in more than three decades -- the combined result of environmental laws, balmy weather and the recession. | |
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Waste ponds worry EPA
- The News & Observer (new window)
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2009-07-01 |
| North Carolina is home to more potentially hazardous coal-ash storage ponds than any other state, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. | |
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Charlotte has an ozone problem
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2009-06-14 |
| Charlotte's surging population – and the cars that we drive – have put the region in jeopardy of not meeting federal clear-air standards. | |
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Environment committee dumps air quality reviews
- News & Record (new window)
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2009-05-12 |
| RALEIGH — A bill that environmental regulators say weakens North Carolina’s efforts to curb air pollution cleared a House committee Monday. | |
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Judge orders pollution study at Duke plant
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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2008-12-03 |
| A federal judge in Asheville has ordered Duke Energy to fully analyze expected emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from its expanding Cliffside power plant. | |
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Soot suit: It shouldn't be necessary to sue for the right to breathe.
- The Fayetteville Observer (new window)
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2008-07-15 |
| Is it possible to be too big, too important to be held to standards that don’t make other people sick, degrade their living conditions and undermine one of their leading industries? | |
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Duke Rethinks Pollution Controls
- News and Observer (new window)
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2008-06-17 |
| CHARLOTTE - Duke Energy said Friday that it will evaluate the pollution controls at a coal-burning plant it is building in the Blue Ridge foothills to make sure they are as efficient as possible. | |
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EPA sets new standard for nation's air quality
- Winston-Salem Journal (new window)
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2008-03-13 |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised the bar for air quality yesterday, a decision that could leave the Triad struggling to meet the tougher standard. | |
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Groups fighting Cliffside permit
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2008-03-06 |
| A host of environmental groups have asked N.C. regulators to modify or revoke a permit for Duke Energy's expanded Cliffside power plant. | |
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Fight over coal plant focused on mercury
- Houston Chronicle (new window)
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2008-02-28 |
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke Energy Corp.'s newest coal-fired power generator will pump 5 1/2 million tons of carbon dioxide into the North Carolina sky every year, outraging environmentalists worried about the threat of global warming. | |
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North Carolina gets go-ahead in its TVA pollution suit
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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2008-02-01 |
| The state of North Carolina can proceed with a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority that demands the utility clean up its power plants and reduce air pollution, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. | |
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Smokies power plant decried
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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2007-12-15 |
| The air quality in the Smoky Mountains, Linville Gorge and other rough-cut jewels of Western North Carolina would be severely harmed by a major expansion of Duke Energy's Cliffside power plant, and state regulators are moving too fast to permit it, federal park and environmental officials say. | |
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Why we are marching
- The Sylva Herald (new window)
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2007-08-16 |
| On August 18, the fourth annual Relay for Clean Air will begin at 6:15 a.m. as the first bicyclist leaves Newfound Gap at the border between Tennessee and North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park carrying the pennant-sized “Clean Air” banner. Through a continual chain of bicycle riders, runners and walkers, the banner will arrive in Asheville via the Blue Ridge Parkway, 100 miles and 14 hours later. This is a march for the right to breathe clean air. | |
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Rowan air quality bad, but shows improvement
- Salisbury Post (new window)
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2007-08-10 |
| First the bad news: Rowan is one of two counties in the state out of compliance with federal ozone pollution limits. (Mecklenburg is the other.) | |
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Relay for Clean Air more important than ever, event organizers say
- The Sylva Herald (new window)
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2007-08-09 |
| “The Relay for Clean Air is an important message sent from citizens to government officials at the local, state and federal levels: There is nothing more important than clean air,” Friedman said. “All people depend upon clean air for good health, a healthy environment and a prosperous economy.” | |
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Walk, run and bike for clean air
- Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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2007-08-08 |
| The relay traverses 100 miles — from the state line in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to downtown Asheville where the relay culminates in a Clean Air Rally. The course follows the Blue Ridge along the Haywood/Jackson county lines before descending into Asheville. | |
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Beijing gets clean air tips in RTP
- The News & Observer (new window)
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2007-06-27 |
| The air that Olympic athletes breathe at the 2008 Games in Beijing could be cleaner because of something that happened in the Triangle this month. | |
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Unhealthy ozone levels expected
- News-Record (new window)
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2007-06-26 |
| Ozone levels could reach an unhealthy point today. | |
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EPA Airs Plan to Tighten Ozone, Smog Standards
- NPR's Morning Edition (new window)
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2007-06-21 |
| The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tighter air quality standards for ground-level ozone, the main component of smog. The agency's proposal would dramatically increase the number of U.S. counties rated as having unhealthy air. | |
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Triangle air quality expected to be better today
- The Herald-Sun (new window)
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2007-06-19 |
| According to the N.C. Division of Air Quality, levels of ozone -- best known as the main ingredient in smog -- have been trending down in the past several years, possibly as the result of increased federal and state regulations on harmful emissions. | |
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Conference sparks clean-air ideas
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2007-06-10 |
| Doctors, teachers, trucking company representatives, environmental specialists and government planners gathered at Lenoir-Rhyne College on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the region's air quality. | |
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State regulators reject bid to block coal plant
- The News & Observer (new window)
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2007-06-07 |
| State regulators this morning rebuffed a bid by environmentalist groups to bar Duke Energy from building a coal-burning power plant west of Charlotte. The N.C. Utilities Commission upheld its March decision to allow Duke to build one 800-megawatt unit. The commission in March had rejected Duke’s request to build two units. Environmentalists subsequently asked the regulators to reconsider their decision allowing one unit. | |
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Cutting Haze: Air Quality Index merits attention, and we can fight the red, experts say
- Winston-Salem Journal (new window)
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2007-06-07 |
| Air pollution has an effect on people’s health, even at lower, supposedly safe levels. A recent study by researchers at Yale University found that ozone was dangerous to people’s health even at levels lower than current federal and international pollution standards. That’s why air-quality experts say that we need to do a better job at reducing the things we can control - namely not the weather, but car, truck and bus emissions. | |
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Fines Increase for Air Polluters
- The Daily Tar Heel (new window)
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2007-05-24 |
| Allen co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Pryor Gibson, D-Anson that passed in the N.C. House of Representatives May 16 which will more than double the fines for companies who violate state air pollution laws. | |
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