NC Conservation Network

Help us welcome our Spring 2026 Campus Fellows!  Be sure to say hello if you see them on campus.

States are getting serious about energy affordability As legislatures reconvene and new governors take office, rising electricity and natural gas prices are at the top of everyone’s to-do list.

Here's what our other states are doing to protect people from high gas prices.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

Read UNCW’s latest research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Want to help track ghost forests? Join the iNaturalist project by @capefearriverwatch —anyone can contribute: www.inaturalist.org/projects/cfr...

Ghost forests are expanding along North Carolina’s coast. Swipe through to learn why these freshwater swamps matter, what ghost forests are, and how sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion are driving their spread.

She previously served as NCCN’s Affiliate Capacity Intern in 2024-25. In her free time, she enjoys attending concerts, gardening, reading, and watching movies.

MEET OUR ORGANIZER: Genevieve Myers

As an Organizer, she works on various campaigns & engages activists across NC's Triangle and Triad regions. She graduated from NC State in 2025 with a BS in Environmental Sciences, focus in Global Environmental Justice, and minor in Nonprofit Studies.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Literally putting polluters profits over people's lives. 👎

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

ASHEVILLE FRIENDS! Join MountainTrue and NC Conservation Network at The RAD Brewing Co. on 1/20 at 6:30pm for a short screening of two documentaries within the Fear in the Water: PFAS Stories series.

RSVP here: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/page/92113/s...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Literally putting polluters profits over people's lives. 👎

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

ASHEVILLE FRIENDS! Join MountainTrue and NC Conservation Network at The RAD Brewing Co. on 1/20 at 6:30pm for a short screening of two documentaries within the Fear in the Water: PFAS Stories series.

RSVP here: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/page/92113/s...

"The EPA’s proposed rule change would strip Clean Water Act protections from 80% of all wetlands and over 5 million miles of streams across the country."

www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...

CBC Political Cartoons | Cartoons this Week WRAL's Opinion section was launched in 2016 by Capitol Broadcasting Company to raise awareness of important statewide issues, fostering meaningful discussions and encouraging civic engagement to drive...

Playing the grinch this year: Duke Energy.

www.wral.com/draughon-dra...

Experts blame dredging, sea levels for spread of 'ghost forests' in the Cape Fear - WWAYTV3 A June study done by UNCW faculty member, Monica Rother found that dredging in 1946, 1970 and 2000 were consistent with growth suppression events in bald cypress after sampling the rings of these tree...

"They look like bone, and that’s kind of an unnerving situation and sight to see cause we’re used to seeing things that are thriving"

Northern Lights may become visible across Carolinas: Here’s when Several viewers around the Charlotte area captured stunning photos of the aurora on Tuesday night.

Who's ready?

www.wbtv.com/2025/11/12/n...

North Carolina Zoo welcomes endangered red wolf Meet the three-year-old red wolf now at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro.

Some good news to start off your Monday!

www.wsoctv.com/news/local/n...

Wilmington City Council rejects Chemours expansion amid PFAS fears Chemours recently applied to the state to expand production at the facility.

This is great news! Other cities and counties should follow suit.

www.wect.com/2025/11/06/w...

Local elections are happening in many towns and cities across NC today!

Look up your voter record at myNCvote.com to find your polling place and view your sample ballot (if your record says "no eligible ballots" then there is not an election in your area at this time).

Your fall leaf forecast is here. 🍂 North Carolina, you never disappoint. Explore a digital map here: www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage...

📷 WE'RE HIRING! 📷 The Organizer will play a critical role in our issue advocacy, public outreach, and non-partisan efforts to boost voter turnout in North Carolina. Please share this post with anyone you think may be interested. More details here: www.ncconservationnetwork.org/jobs/organiz...

A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to get the EPA to regulate PFAS. Now the Trump administration is reversing progress.

With @insideclimatenews.org & @whqr.bsky.social | For seven years, N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to regulate PFAS in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success.
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...

GREENVILLE, GREENSBORO, CHARLOTTE, & CARRBORO! We're bringing our trivia nights to y'all. Hope to see you at one of the events below!

Duke Energy has released its new carbon-reduction plan. Here's how 2025 NC legislation shaped it. The NC General Assembly overrode Gov. Josh Stein's veto to pass a bill removing an interim carbon reduction target.

"Unfortunately, what removing the target is going to allow Duke to do is run its aging, inefficient, dirty coal plants for longer."

www.wfae.org/2025-10-02/d...

Duke Energy has released its new carbon-reduction plan. Here's how 2025 NC legislation shaped it. The NC General Assembly overrode Gov. Josh Stein's veto to pass a bill removing an interim carbon reduction target.

"Unfortunately, what removing the target is going to allow Duke to do is run its aging, inefficient, dirty coal plants for longer."

www.wfae.org/2025-10-02/d...

Data center uncertainty looms large over inaugural state energy task force meeting Over the next decade, utilities are predicting that data centers, manufacturing and electrification will drive up energy demand at an unprecedented rate. Gov. Stein has tasked a group of experts and w...

"the group should be “thinking about how we can maintain affordability for the individuals who can least afford to manage large rate increases over the next three or four years.”

www.wunc.org/2025-10-01/d...

Damage from Helene creates conservation headaches for crucial highland spruce-fir forest Roan Highlands in NC are home to rare spruce-fir habitat and many unique species. A year after Helene, they are at increased risk.

"Now, one year after Helene, partners are focused on long-range plans to restore and protect the forest transformed by the storm."

carolinapublicpress.org/72736/roan-h...

CAFO Country: As hog and poultry operations spread, so do concerns In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these conc...

“This is a huge source of nitrogen, phosphorus, pathogens, and it is under-regulated and really unmonitored in a way that we don't see for any other type of industry”

www.wfae.org/2025-09-23/c...

CAFO Country: As hog and poultry operations spread, so do concerns In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these conc...

“This is a huge source of nitrogen, phosphorus, pathogens, and it is under-regulated and really unmonitored in a way that we don't see for any other type of industry”

www.wfae.org/2025-09-23/c...

"Forever chemicals" found in Chapel Hill well as county studies sludge’s role PFAS detected in a Chapel Hill family’s well are prompting Orange Water and Sewer Authority to launch private well testing near historic sludge fields as state regulators study potential contamination...

“We shouldn’t have to fight this hard for clean drinking water,” Meeker said. “Somebody needs to take responsibility.”