A local Wake County battle over a landfill has a familiar ring; that’s because the similar battles over landfills have played out around North Carolina for decades. By Thomas Goldsmith UPDATE: The Wake County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted Monday to refuse Shotwell Landfill’s request to expand the amount of waste it accepts annually and […]
In Charlotte, a collaboration blooms that reduces air pollution at two medical construction sites. By Catherine Clabby What happens when a big-league health system, clean-air advocates and construction companies sit down at the same table? Medical values influence building projects, averting some pollution at two health system construction sites. And clean-air advocates dream of the […]
In a seeming reversal of policy, the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources is backing a bill that would allow farmers to burn plastics. By Gabe Rivin Since the 1970s, Aubrey Raper and his wife, Linda, have run a farm in the small town of Marshall, in Western North Carolina. The two work a […]
