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The water tower is a defining feature of the Bynum skyline and has stood for 75 years. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Effort to Save a Historic Water Tower Put Lead in this North Carolina Town’s Soil

By Lisa Sorg

Steel pipe sections of the Mountain Valley Pipeline during construction in Bent Mountain, Virginia, in August 2022. The pipeline became operational on Friday. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial

By Hannah Chanatry

An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money

Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills

By Lisa Sorg

Children sit in the sand at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in the evening of July 23, 2023 to avoid the heat of the daytime. Credit: Madeline Gray for The Washington Post via Getty Images

As the Country Heats Up, ERs May See an Influx of Young Patients Struggling With Mental Health

By Jenaye Johnson

Muhammud Abu-Kass demonstrates how to work the training equipment at Guilford Tech Community College. The equipment trains him to be ready to work at Toyota’s first and only battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. Credit: Nicole Norman/Medill News Service

Toyota Opens a ‘Megasite’ for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden’s IRA

By Nicole Norman

Mark Robinson addresses supporters during a campaign event at Pelican's Perch Bar & Grill on Feb. 17 in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. Credit: Madeline Gray/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In the N.C. Governor’s Race, the GOP Frontrunner Is a Climate Denier, and the Democrat Doesn’t Want to Talk About It

By Daniel Shailer

A sculpture with "karibuni," the word "welcome" in Swahili, at United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2018. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images.

Chemours and DuPont Knew About Risks But Kept Making Toxic PFAS Chemicals, UN Human Rights Advisors Conclude

By James Bruggers

A piece of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sits in Rocky Mount, Virginia on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Developers Seek Big Changes to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate Extension, Amid Sustained Opposition

By Hannah Chanatry

Ela Dam in Whittier, North Carolina. Credit: Erin McCombs

As the Harms of Hydropower Dams Become Clearer, Some Activists Ask, ‘Is It Time to Remove Them?’

By Kristoffer Tigue

Left: North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Cheri Beasley speaks to a crowd during an election night event on May 17, 2022 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images; Right: Ted Budd, who is running for U.S. Senate, speaks before a rally for former U.S. President Donald Trump at The Farm at 95 on April 9, 2022 in Selma, North Carolina. Credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

In North Carolina Senate Race, Global Warming Is On The Back Burner. Do Voters Even Care?

By James Bruggers

Drone aerial view of Outer Banks Highway 12. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

By Gilbert M. Gaul

A concentrated animal feeding operation in North Carolina. Credit: Aman Azhar

North Carolina’s Bet on Biomass Energy Is Faltering, With Energy Targets Unmet and Concerns About Environmental Justice

By Aman Azhar

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A Biomass Power Plant in Rural North Carolina Reignites Concerns Over Clean Energy and Environmental Justice

By Aman Azhar

Rescuers help a woman from a rescue boat after being evacuated from her apartment due to flood waters from the Little River as it crests from the rains caused by Hurricane Florence as it passed through the area on Sept. 18, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

North Carolina Hurricanes Linked to Increases in Gastrointestinal Illnesses in Marginalized Communities

By Leah Campbell

A concentrated animal feeding operation in North Carolina. Credit: Aman Azhar

EPA to Probe Whether North Carolina’s Permitting of Biogas From Swine Feeding Operations Violates Civil Rights of Nearby Neighborhoods

By Aman Azhar

Video: Aerial Detectives Dive Deep Into North Carolina’s Hog and Poultry Waste Problem

By Aman Azhar

Power lines and power generating windmills rise above the rural landscape on June 13, 2018 near Dwight, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

The Ohio Statehouse is seen on Jan. 16, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Climate Activists and Environmental Justice Advocates Join the Gerrymandering Fight in Ohio and North Carolina

By Marianne Lavelle

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