Around the Region

What we eat effects our environment.

A federal federal researcher’s unpublished study lurks at the center of a dispute between the state Environmental Management Commission and its critics over reducing mercury emissions from North Carolina’s coal-fired power plants.

North Carolina’s newest state park hasn’t even opened and already there’s talk of making it bigger.

Duke wants to add coal-fired units in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties.

The State may acquire a portion of Chimney Rock Park

The Highlands Plateau Audubon Society, in conjunction with Audubon North Carolina, is undertaking a long-term project to monitor bird populations on the Highlands Plateau.

As our readers “down east” know all to well, hog waste stinks!

Durham Public Schools will pay about $70,000 for cleanup and other costs related to last month’s mercury spill at an elementary school, school officials said.

Woodpeckers are having quite the time at Fort Bragg!

About JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.