From the Southern Environmental Law Center:
Chapel Hill – Environmental organizations will sue Duke Energy Carolinas today over Duke’s construction of a new coal-fired power plant at the Cliffside Steam Station that was not designed to meet legal limits on its emissions of hazardous air pollutants, such as mercury, arsenic and dioxins. The lawsuit will […]
Local musicians have a new hope coming their way in the next few months as far as regional recognition. WHQR 91.3 FM–whose signal reaches all the way north to Jacksonville, west to I-95, and south to N. Myrtle Beach–will soon begin recording for a new forum at which local musicians will be performing live, Soup […]
That kills me…. WHQR reports that the anti-tax (and anti-annexation) group “Americans for Prosperity” is staging a protest against Senator Julia Boseman at the NHC county offices…because she didn’t pay her taxes. All the sudden they’re soooooo pious about civic duties.
As I understand them, the AFP are zealously — incoherently! — anti-tax. Maybe something else […]
One of my favorite podcasts, an NPR show called the Bryant Park Project for the Manhattan park its “worldwide headquarters” overlook, just discussed a study from Northwestern University’s Department of Social Psychology, which found white people so nervous about being or seeming racist that “they indicated a preference for avoiding all contact with black people.” […]
Concerned About The Air You Breathe? Or the Water you Drink? Come to the next New Hanover County Commissioner’s meeting on Monday, June 2, at 6 pm at the historic New Hanover County Courthouse at 24 North 3rd St. in downtown Wilmington, and let your presence be known! Several experts from the medical, academic, and […]
We had someone else’s paper delivered to us this morning in a rain sleeve. I’m glad we did. We’re about to resubscribe to the paper after a long period of thinking it’s just too much paper, especially with no curb-side recycling in our area (yet; we’re working on it).
There’s an interesting, high-level editorial from Thomas […]
With all the recent news coming to the surface regarding the toxicity of Bisphenol-A(BPA)– a chemical used in hard plastics such as water bottles, baby bottles, and other consumer goods– I’ve decided to trade in my beautiful, yellow, 32 oz Nalgene water bottle for a slightly less-sexy but dependably non-leaching stainless steel model.
There have been […]
Around the time my husband and I were looking for tickets to a wedding in Orlando, I got called to a press conference at ILM, where County Commissioner Bobby Greer ended up sporting mouse ears and touting the arrival of Allegiant Air and its non-stop flights to Orlando.
After several emails, a couple of phone calls, and a weekend spent listening to their new self-titled demo, I had the chance to sit down with Adam Forsythe and Tiffany Reece of Wilmington’s own Barnraisers.
Public Comments Regarding Titan Cement
New Hanover County Courthouse, April 21, 2008
By Joel K. Bourne Jr.
Get involved at stoptitan.org
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners:
My name is Joel Bourne. I am a freelance journalist and editor residing in the Ogden area of New Hanover County. For the past two decades I have covered important environmental issues for a number of […]
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