NC Conservation Network
@ncconservation.bsky.social
Protecting clean water, healthy air, and natural places in North Carolina. Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/ncconservationnetwork?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Help us welcome our Spring 2026 Campus Fellows! Be sure to say hello if you see them on campus.
January 29, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Help us welcome our Spring 2026 Campus Fellows! Be sure to say hello if you see them on campus.
Here's what our other states are doing to protect people from high gas prices.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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.
www.canarymedia.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Here's what our other states are doing to protect people from high gas prices.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
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.
January 21, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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.
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.
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.
January 20, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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.
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.
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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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...
RSVP here: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/page/92113/s...
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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...
RSVP here: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/page/92113/s...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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...
RSVP here: action.ncconservationnetwork.org/page/92113/s...
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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...
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...
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
Opinion: EPA's proposed rule change threatens to weaken US, NC waters
The EPA’s proposed rule change would strip Clean Water Act protections from 80% of all wetlands and 5 million miles of streams across the country.
www.citizen-times.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"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...
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
"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"
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...
www.wwaytv3.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"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"
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).
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).
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November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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).
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...
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📷 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...
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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/...
www.theassemblync.com/environment/...
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.
www.theassemblync.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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/...
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!
October 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
GREENVILLE, GREENSBORO, CHARLOTTE, & CARRBORO! We're bringing our trivia nights to y'all. Hope to see you at one of the events below!
"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...
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.
www.wfae.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"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...
www.wfae.org/2025-10-02/d...
"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...
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.
www.wfae.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"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...
www.wfae.org/2025-10-02/d...
"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...
www.wunc.org/2025-10-01/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...
www.wunc.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"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...
www.wunc.org/2025-10-01/d...
"Now, one year after Helene, partners are focused on long-range plans to restore and protect the forest transformed by the storm."
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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.
carolinapublicpress.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"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...
carolinapublicpress.org/72736/roan-h...
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“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...
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...
www.wfae.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“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...
www.wfae.org/2025-09-23/c...
“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...
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...
www.wfae.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“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...
www.wfae.org/2025-09-23/c...