Articles Posted in North Carolina Environmental Law

The Richmond County Daily reports that families along Fox Road will now get county water two years after their wells were found to be contaminated. For more click here. If you have a question about your legal rights in a situation similar to this, call Mike Malone at Hendren & Malone.

As reported: Opponents of Alcoa Inc.’s effort to win a new 50-year license to operate four hydroelectric dams along a 38-mile stretch of the Yadkin River blasted the company yesterday for failing to deliver jobs and clean up pollution it created around the dams and its lakes. About 150 people gathered at the home of…

As reported: There’s certainly no glowing nuclear waste. Dioxin is doubtful. And as for other varied carcinogens, who knows? It’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that making up the debris at the old Phoenix landfill site at Tucker Creek. But the truth is no one really knows with any certainty…

As reported by the Mountain XXpress: David Bradley, 61, runs an insulation business out of his home on Chapel Hill Church Road, near the contaminated former CTS of Asheville site. Now, based on a request from CTS, the Environmental Protection Agency has demanded that Bradley give out information on his home as a possible source…

UNC’s public television station has complied with a subpoena from the General Assembly and turned over raw video footage from a forthcoming series about Alcoa’s impact on the Yadkin River. WFAE’s Julie Rose has more: North Carolina has a “shield law” meant to protect the media from being forced to hand over information about their…

As reported, the Johnston County Health Department has ordered roughly 100 restaurants and commercial kitchens in Smithfield to close until the boil-water order is lifted. Rick Childrey, director of the Smithfield-Selma Chamber of Commerce, said the closure — which was announced around dinnertime Wednesday — will mean a big loss for restaurants, movie theaters and…

U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) board members are slated to vote tonight on a series of 18 urgent recommendations aimed at preventing fires and explosions caused when fuel gas is used to clean or purge gas pipes of debris, air, or other substances, typically during facility construction and maintenance. The recommendations – directed to the…

As reported, Smithfield’s water system is contaminated with potentially deadly E. Coli bacteria, according to test results released Wednesday afternoon, prompting town officials to order residents and businesses to boil water before using it. Town officials used a reverse 9-1-1 system to broadcast an order that could be lifted as early as this afternoon if…

BP is now facing civil RICO actions in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama to hold BP accountable for the false assurances it gave the American people that it could handle a worst-case scenario deepwater oil spill. The suits allege that BP committed mail fraud, wire fraud and potentially other RICO predicate act violations when the…

In an interesting story, the federal government is proposing nearly $3 million in fines against the city of Birmingham, Ala., over an incident that officials say was one of the largest fish kills in the history of the Endangered Species Act. The proposed penalty stems from a 2008 accident in which a city maintenance crew…