RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The last bill the North Carolina General Assembly approved before adjourning this year was designed to stop local governments from trying to delay or restrict fracking in their own backyards. Last week’s legislation, inserted into a 41-page ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — A judge has ordered North Carolina not to approve any fracking operations until the state Supreme Court rules on a legal question about how state panels are formed. Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens’ decision ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — The General Assembly is one vote away from finalizing a bill giving a state panel more leeway directing how air pollution from future fracking operations in North Carolina is restricted. The Senate gave tentative approval Thursday to ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina could require companies to pay to repair roads after fracking operations. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the agency’s suggestion to state lawmakers Tuesday was met with some criticism. Republican Sen. E.S. Newton of ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law a bill that clears the way for permits to be issued for fracking in North Carolina as soon as next spring. McCrory on Wednesday signed the Energy Modernization Act during ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) — The effort to get the exploration of natural gas in North Carolina using a process called fracking started next year is moving ahead at the legislature. The Senate scheduled debate Wednesday on how rules being developed by ...
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Read More »North Carolina native and singer-songwriter James Taylor is starring in a television ad for an environmental group urging viewers to challenge efforts to allow natural gas exploration in the state through fracking.
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Read More »A study committee is recommending a rule that could force some North Carolina home owners to sell natural gas under their homes and farm land.
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Read More »The head of North Carolina's economic development agency says she wants to tax fracking to raise money for incentive deals that can lure companies to locate or expand in the state.
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Read More »Dozens of environmental activists blocked a chemical plant July 8 to protest against the company's sale of products used in the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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