Environmentalists say the EPA wrongly denied their petition to force Chemours to investigate the potential contamination factors and dangers of so-called “forever chemicals” already found in the Cape Fear, North Carolina, watershed.
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Senator Richard Burr said the move to denounce his vote in the impeachment trial shows loyalty to Trump over adherence to Republican values.
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At least three people were killed when a tornado tore through a seaside town in North Carolina, one of many wild and deadly impacts from a sprawling blast of winter weather across the United States.
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Former North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest can sue over a 2012 political ad that favored his Democratic opponent, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
Read moreA federal court in North Carolina ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must develop, by March 1, a plan to release captive red wolves into the Red Wolf Recovery Area in the state.
Read moreAn appeals court in North Carolina ruled that people who have been in an abusive same-sex dating relationship who are seeking a protective order should be equally protected against domestic violence as people in relationships with persons of the opposite sex.
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President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday picked North Carolina’s top environmental regulator to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, which became known for rolling back regulations under the Trump administration.
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The Fourth Circuit seemed unlikely Thursday to side with a conservative legal group in its effort to get sensitive voting records from North Carolina, based on claims that the state has not properly maintained its rolls.
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The en banc Fourth Circuit seemed hesitant Monday to allow Republican members of the North Carolina Legislature to intervene in a dispute over the state’s voter ID law.
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A federal judge incorrectly halted a North Carolina law requiring voters to present photo ID at the polls, a Fourth Circuit panel ruled on Wednesday.
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An environmental group sued the federal government again Tuesday for not giving endangered species protections to two aquatic creatures in eastern North Carolina, claiming officials have dragged their feet for nearly a decade on the proposed protection.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2018 jury verdict that led to awarding monetary damages to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog operation for smells and noise they said made living nearby unbearable.
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The fossil skeletons of two dinosaurs intertwined in what looks like a final death match have been donated to a North Carolina museum.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is facing a new challenge from red wolf advocates, who said in a federal lawsuit Monday that the agency is failing to conserve the critically endangered species.
Read moreNorth Carolina is swinging “red” in major contests as Republicans held onto the coveted U.S. Senate seat and President Donald Trump is ahead of President-elect Joe Biden as the state continues counting votes.
Read moreA federal court in North Carolina denied parents’ request for a restraining order to prevent their son’s school from including the novel “The Poet X” in its ninth grade language arts curriculum. The parents claim the book promotes hostility towards Catholicism. Questioning traditional religion is one of the topics of the book, “yet the same might be said of celebrated authors such as Chaucer, Voltaire, Paine, Twain, or Sinclair Lewis,” the court wrote.
Read moreNorth Carolinians who participated in a march to a polling place on the last day of early voting claim in a federal lawsuit that police in Alamance County violently dispersed peaceful marchers with pepper spray and wrongly arrested several of them.
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On the eve of Election Day, President Donald Trump attacked his Democratic rival as unqualified and urged voters in the crucial battleground state of North Carolina to cast their ballots for him.
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in the crucial battleground state of North Carolina has slipped slightly to a 3-point advantage, according to a poll released Thursday.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday to keep in place an extended deadline for tallying absentee ballots in North Carolina.
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