ICN North Carolina

A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals

For seven years N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to enact PFAS regulations in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success.

By Lisa Sorg

In Its New Carbon Plan, Duke Energy Gambles on Coal as a Shorter-Term Fix for Powering Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?

By Lisa Sorg

Trump Raised $8 Million for Hurricane Helene Survivors. Where Did It All Go?

By Katie Myers, Grist

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

ICN Sunday Morning

North Carolina Cattle Farmer to Pay $92,000 for Damaging Mountain Streams

By Lisa Sorg

Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas

By Lisa Sorg

Atlantic Shore Towns Feel Hurricane Erin’s Sting Without It Ever Making Landfall

By Kiley Price

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

N.C.’s Democratic Congressional Delegation Condemns EPA Cancellation of Solar for All

By Lisa Sorg

Will ‘The Power Bill Reduction Act’ Make Electric Bills Go Down or Up in N.C.?

By Lisa Sorg

Before Tropical Depression Chantal Swamped Hillsborough, the Town Had Been Counting on FEMA

By Lisa Sorg

New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast

By Bob Berwyn

Chantal Wreaks Havoc in North Carolina as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

By Lisa Sorg

N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People

By Lisa Sorg

In North Carolina, Exploding Bulbs and Fridges on the Fritz Reveal a Town’s Fraying Electric System

By Lisa Sorg

Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains

By Lisa Sorg

A Transco Pipeline Plan to Boost Gas in Five States Would Sharply Increase Air Pollution in N.C. Towns

By Lisa Sorg

States, Environmentalists Sue Trump Over Billions in Funding Freezes for EV Charging

By Lisa Sorg