Real Results For North Carolina’s Environment
Repower North Carolina with solar energy
Across our nation, workers are installing solar systems that will supply clean electricity to millions of homes, schools and offices. Environment North Carolina lobbied for new laws in our state and now we’re urging President Obama and Congress to expand clean energy use nationwide.
Preserving the Smokies to the Outer Banks
In July 2008, state lawmakers approved an Environment North Carolina-backed funding increase of $58 million for the state’s land conservation programs.
Build the clean cars of the future
Imagine if cars that get better than 40 miles per gallon were the norm. Thanks to new Environment North Carolina-backed policies favored by President Obama, by 2020 new cars and trucks sold in North Carolina could meet this standard, emitting 40 percent less CO2.
Protecting coastal sounds from runoff pollution
In 2008, Environment North Carolina helped pass a measure to prevent runoff pollution and overdevelopment from destroying sensitive coastal sounds that are the habitat of oysters, clams, and mussels, and a place for residents and tourists to boat and swim.
End our addiction to fossil fuels
What’s the cheapest, cleanest, fastest way to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? Make products and buildings more energy-efficient. The changes our federation has already won will shave at least $22 billion off Americans’ energy bills in the next decade.
Bring change to Washington, D.C.
In 2008, voters elected the most pro-environment president and Congress in recent memory. We talked to voters from Charlotte to Chapel Hill in order to elect Barack Obama, Sen. Kay Hagan and Reps. Heath Shuler and Larry Kissell to represent North Carolina in Washington, D.C.
Curbing emissions with clean energy
In a decision that could reduce polluting emissions by more than 1 million tons, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against Duke Energy in 2007, and in favor of Environment North Carolina and other petitioners, that industrial smokestacks and power plants must meet pollution control standards when the facilities are refurbished.
Saving Jordan Lake
In November 2008, state officials finally ratified an Environment North Carolina-backed plan to restore Jordan Lake, which draws more than 1 million visitors every year.
Leading the Southeast with toxin ban
In 2005, Environment North Carolina passed the first legislation in the Southeast to ban the gasoline additive MTBE, a dangerous toxin that has found its way into groundwater.
Preserving the North Fork First Broad River
Thanks to a petition filed by Environment North Carolina, in 2007, after nearly three years of deliberation, water quality testing and public input, state officials moved to protect one of the our last unspoiled waters, the North Fork First Broad River.
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