ICN North Carolina

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.

By Lisa Sorg

A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, N.C., Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened

By Lisa Sorg

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor

By Lisa Sorg

The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

By Jaylan Sims

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater

By Lisa Sorg

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

Disaster Survivors Want Kristi Noem Out of FEMA 

By Arcelia Martin

A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth, Lisa Sorg

Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lisa Sorg

Duke Energy Plans to Build a Massive Natural Gas Power Plant in Davidson County. But Where, Exactly?

By Lisa Sorg

The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.

By Lisa Sorg

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State

By Lisa Sorg

Scientists Say the Forever Chemical TFA Could Cause Irreversible Harm. In Eastern North Carolina, It’s Everywhere.

By Lisa Sorg

Members of America’s Largest Power Grid Can’t Agree on How to Power Data Centers

By Rambo Talabong

N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants

By Lisa Sorg

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin

N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency So Poorly Managed That State Auditor Couldn’t Determine Full Extent of Waste

By Lisa Sorg