Lego said Tuesday that it will stop using plastic bags inside its boxed sets and replace them with paper ones. The Danish toymaker said it will start making the switch next year and expects plastic bags to be completely phased...
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President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new federal rule to speed up the environmental...
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The Town of Chapel Hill took more steps toward creating a climate action plan at a meeting earlier...
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Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a...
Read MoreHundreds of environmentalists opposed to the Trump administration proposal to expand offshore drilling in the Atlantic and other ocean waters converged Monday to press their case at the federal government’s only public meeting...
Read MoreThe federal government’s only scheduled public meeting in North Carolina to discuss expanding oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic coast and in other waters is expected to attract busloads of people opposing the idea. The...
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UNC has improved its sustainability efforts in the past two years, and it seems to be paying off....
Read MoreThe nation’s largest electric company is fighting to persuade regulators that North Carolina consumers should pay 15 percent more on average, including nearly $200 million a year to clean up the toxic byproducts of burning coal...
Read MoreThe petroleum extraction technique known as fracking is boring into the meeting agendas of officials in Chatham County as they prepare to review new research on oil development activity. A temporary moratorium on that activity...
Read MoreThe League of Women Voters is holding an environmental-advocacy event, and you’re also invited to the 20th annual Community Dinner.
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