WASHINGTON, DC October 1, 2018 – As North Carolina communities grapple with the pollution from industrial pig, chicken, and turkey operations that flooded during Hurricane Florence, community groups and an allied national coalition filed a legal complaint in federal court late Friday challenging a Trump administration policy that unlawfully exempts industrial animal feeding operations from […]
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Cape Fear Riverkeeper Reports “Ongoing Failure” at Duke’s Sutton Coal Ash Landfill
Sept. 16, 2018 – Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette, who is on site at Duke Energy’s Sutton Power Plant investigating breaches at the Sutton coal ash landfill, reports that there are at least two sections of the site with overflows. As of 9:45 a.m., both breaches were “very large,” according to Burdette, and a “waterfall’ […]
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Rising Appalachia Releases Music Video, Honors World Water Day
March 22, 2017 – The Atlanta-born, Appalachian-bred, New Orleans-seasoned soulful Folk/World troubadours Rising Appalachia released their latest music video today in honor of World Water Day. Rising Appalachia is honored to release Rivermouth in partnership with Waterkeeper Alliance, the largest and fastest growing nonprofit solely focused on clean water. Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement […]
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Op-Ed: Gary Wockner: The Dam Truth
Feb. 22, 2017 – Ten years ago I was pictured on the front page of the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper giving a presentation titled, “The Dam Truth.” The movie, “The Inconvenient Truth,” had just come out and I thought “The Dam Truth” was a plucky spinoff that would grab the public and media’s attention, which […]