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North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

Since 2023, the city of Durham has fined Brenntag $157,000 for violations related to water contamination.

By Lisa Sorg

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News
Brenda Schwab moved to Rowland in November 2024. She’s been sampling waterways in the area because she is concerned about waste from CAFOs potentially entering creeks and swamps. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

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

By Lisa Sorg

A creek flows near a public recreation center in Durham, N.C., where chemicals are seeping into the waterway about a half-mile upstream. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

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

By Lisa Sorg

StarPet, a plastics plant in Asheboro, sends wastewater containing 1,4-dioxane to the city's treatment plant, which in turn discharges it into rivers and streams that are drinking water supplies. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

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

By Lisa Sorg

N.C. Wildlife Resources Commissions officials had to rescue dozens of Southern Appalachian Brook Trout from a mountain stream after a cattle farmer allowed as much as 2 feet of sediment to enter the waterway. Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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

By Lisa Sorg

Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) attends a House committee hearing on Feb. 5 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

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

By Lisa Sorg

StarPet operates a 1.3 million-square-foot factory on 30 acres along Pineview Road in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

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

By Lisa Sorg

A crew works on a Duke Energy substation in Carthage, N.C. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

N.C. Treasurer Names Conservative Climate Skeptic to State Utilities Commission

By Lisa Sorg

A hog farm in eastern North Carolina. Credit: Rick Dove

N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits

By Lisa Sorg

After the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant caught fire, the facility's owners shipped thousands of gallons of fire suppressant water to a dairy farm in Yadkin County. That material contained toxic PFAS. Credit: Winston-Salem Fire Department

EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

By Lisa Sorg

A view of the cogeneration plant operated by the University of North Carolina, located a half-mile from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

To Reduce its Carbon Footprint, UNC Could Burn Pellets Composed of Paper and Plastic

By Lisa Sorg

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

Chemours supports the EPA’s proposed rule to rescind drinking water standards for GenX and several other PFAS compounds. Credit: Chemours

North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Lisa Sorg

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