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EPA cites Chemours with multiple notices of violation; company allegedly failed to provide key documents
by Lisa Sorg
Friday, February 15, 2019

The EPA today announced it has issued a Notice of Violation to Chemours for failing to comply, on multiple occasions, with federal law at the company’s plant in Fayetteville. According to EPA documents — some of them heavily redacted — obtained earlier today by Policy Watch, Chemours in Fayetteville failed to provide many key documents ...
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News

One-on-one: Future Chief Justice Beasley talks about ‘a life full of highlights’

By Melissa Boughton

2/14/2019

If you told Cheri Beasley when she was a little girl that she would grow up to become North Carolina’s first Black female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, she might have looked at you a little funny.

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Trump official quits after coming under fire for commute to N.C.

Trump official quits after coming under fire for commute to N.C.

By Robin Bravender

2/14/2019

History made: Cooper appoints NC’s first Black woman as Chief Justice

History made: Cooper appoints NC’s first Black woman as Chief Justice

By Melissa Boughton

2/13/2019

Original Commentary

Trump may be on the ropes, but ICE is building its own wall

2/13/2019

Surely, it would be folly to suggest that ICE’s hardened reputation as a home-wrecker was earned by the Trump administration alone. Our bloviator-in-chief may be fond of the anti-immigrant dog-whistle, and his Quixotic obsession with a doomed border wall...

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Senator Phil Berger is just plain wrong

Senator Phil Berger is just plain wrong

By Rob Schofield

2/12/2019

Now is the time for NC to enact bipartisan gun violence legislation

Now is the time for NC to enact bipartisan gun violence legislation

2/11/2019

Editorial Cartoon

On ICE

By John Cole

2/11/2019

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Ready for a rematch in the 9th

By John Cole

2/4/2019

Future recruitment and the Board of Governors

By John Cole

1/28/2019

The NC Legislature wishes a happy birthday to MLK

By John Cole

1/21/2019

Video

Glazier: Political pressure by Board of Governors, expedited departure of Chancellor Folt harmful to UNC

1/18/2019

Matt Ellinwood of the Education & Law Project on disappointing literacy results, Read to Acheive

1/11/2019

Former Special Counsel, NC General Assembly Gerry Cohen details how to improve the voter ID bill

11/26/2018

PPP’s Tom Jensen offers insight into 2018 mid-term elections based on recent polling

10/29/2018

NC State AFL-CIO President on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

9/4/2018

Dr. Stephen Scott on Wake Tech’s November bond proposal

8/30/2018

Events

(SOLD OUT) December 6 Crucial Conversation: Prof. Gene Nichol discusses his new book

11/23/2018

Oct. 30 Crucial Conversation: Trick or treat? A 2018 election preview Featuring Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling

10/16/2018

October 4 Crucial Conversion – NC’s deadliest policy failure (and how Virginia solved the problem)

9/20/2018

Crucial Conversation – North Carolina’s constitutional amendments blitz: What should be done?

7/25/2018

May 15 | America’s most dangerous policy addiction (and the threat it poses to the common good)

5/4/2018

May 4 | A new day in the fight against gun violence?

4/20/2018

Radio Commentaries & Interviews

Trump’s immigration police are tearing North Carolina families apart

Rob Schofield 2/15/2019

Berger misleads with Medicaid claims

Rob Schofield 2/14/2019

Walter Jones: The loss of a truly unique public servant

Rob Schofield 2/13/2019

Making a strong case for Extreme Risk Protection Orders in North Carolina

Rob Schofield 2/12/2019

Rob Thompson, Deputy Director of NC Child

Clayton Henkel 2/11/2019

Frank Holleman, Southern Environmental Law Center

Clayton Henkel 2/11/2019

Suzanne Miller of North Carolina Families for School Testing Reform

Clayton Henkel 2/11/2019

NC must do more to protect people with disabilities during emergencies

Rob Schofield 2/11/2019

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