Environment North Carolina - Environmental Advocate

According to a report released today by the North Carolina State Environmental Protection Foundation (NCEDF), more than 3,800 outdoor pig garbage dumps in North Carolina contaminate state drinking water, contaminate its air and flow, It is threatening. According to this report, Hog Lagoons of North Carolina states that the system that was used to process 19 million tons of pork waste annually in North Carolina state, confusing pork meat waste with public health and the environment, It is threatening. Public health and environment

Racism and environmental justice were first unified for the first time when citizens opposed landfill PCB proposed in Warren County, North Carolina in 1983. Illegally, North Carolina officials have decided to embed soil contaminated with poisonous polychlorinated biphenyl in Afton, a small town in Warren County. As a result, between June 1978 and August 1978, 30,000 gallons (114 cubic meters) of PCB contaminated waste was illegally deposited on the 210-mile North Carolina State Road. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the PCB posed a threat to public health and require the state to remove contaminated waste. In 1979, the North Carolina State Environmental Natural Resources Bureau and EPA Region 4 selected Warren County as a deposition site for PCB contaminated soil collected from the roadside. Warren County is one of the six counties along the Black Belt in North Carolina State.

Mike Rusher, Environment Communication Officer at DEQ in North Carolina, defended regulators 'regulations on Governor Pat McCrory and coal ash by e - mail to answer SELC' s ​​criticism. "The McCrory government has always proved that Duke Energy is committed to environmental protection in the state of North Carolina," he said. "Because of the governor's leadership, all Duke energy coal ash ponds in North Carolina must safely stop in a way that protects the environment and public health."

Geoff Gisler, senior lawyer at Southern Environmental Law Center, said at a press conference that "Chemors" for decades of environmental pollution in North Carolina must stop to prevent further damage. Capefair drinking water, swimming and fishery families and communities should get healthy and clean water. '... According to the press release, the organization of the protection group submitted to the court will continue to contaminate the water and air in North Carolina PFAS through its chimney discharge, leaked pipe, unlined pit, and drainage " Chemours "Pollution equipment for water purification law and hazardous substance control law