North Carolina
N.C. Senate to have new majority leader
California leaders lionized César Chávez. Now, they face a reckoning with his past; El Paso jail scheduled unauthorized mental health tests for Walmart gunman, records show
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.
civil rights
Norman C. Francis, a stalwart New Orleans leader in civil rights, business and education dies at 94
Francis was the first Black president of Xavier University and integrated Loyola University's law school
North Carolina
California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution
Last year, six farms were the first in the Tar Heel State to get funding from California’s program offsetting its transportation emissions. Their permits to make biogas already have civil rights complaints against them for the pollution from the process.
Environment
A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations
Equipped with both a biodigester to capture methane from hog waste and a system to spray what’s left of the feces and urine onto nearby farm fields, the former White Oaks Farm continues to pollute the surrounding environment.
Environment
Extreme drought impacts three North Carolina counties
Parts of three counties are in extreme drought: Cabarrus, Stanly and Union counties.
North Carolina
Brunswick County Commissioners approve purchase of 380 acres for future raw water reservoir
Land is in the Leland area near the Northwest Water Treatment Plant
Mental Health
Clinicians part of mental health calls in Golden State
Virginia Lawmaker Weighs in on White’s Ferry Impasse; Danville, Va. city council member continuing recovery following attack
Environment
N.C. requiring Chemours to expand well testing in the Lower Cape Fear
The state agency is requiring Chemours to expand sampling eligibility for PFAS contamination in private drinking water wells, now including additional portions of New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus and Pender counties in southeastern N.C.
Environment
NCDEQ to hold public hearing on draft water discharge permit for former Alcoa aluminum facility in Stanly County
Hearing is Aug. 19 in Stanly County
Environment
Briefs: NC DEQ accepting comments for air quality permit for Guilford Co. business; public hearing set for pipeline proposal in Rockingham Co.
Stretch of Wilmington's River Road to close on Sunday, August 18 for roundabout construction
Environment
NCDEQ to hold public hearings on water quality impacts from Transco’s proposed pipeline expansion
2 public hearings in September will be in Rockingham and Forsyth counties