Adam Wagner
Reporter at WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)
Reporter @wunc/NC Newsroom. Formerly @newsobserver, @starnewsonline. [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
Chemours may need to reimburse southeastern North Carolina utilities for hundreds of millions of dollars in filtration technology, under legislation the N.C. House of Representatives passed nearly unanimously Wednesday. House Bill 569 was a very late addition to Wednesday's House calendar, not appearing until shortly before 7 p.m. "No longer will the ratepayers be responsible for doing something that a polluter caused. It will be the polluter that's responsible," Rep.
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1 month ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
Businesses would be able to seek restraining orders against protesters who are blocking entrances and exits to that establishment's premises or nearby roads. "Senate Bill 484 strikes a balance between those who want to protest with those who choose not to, but want to go to work (and) earn a living, as well as the employers who employ them," said Sen. Tim Moffitt, a Hendersonville Republican who was the bill's primary sponsor.
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1 month ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
A $10 million budget appropriation that city of Oxford leaders say is key to a regional water project would be shifted elsewhere under a legislative technical corrections bill, a move Democrats allege is revenge for winning a competitive election in the N.C. House of Representatives. House Bill 74 would shift that $10 million from Oxford, which is represented by Rep. Bryan Cohn, a freshman Democrat, to four different water projects in places represented by Republicans.
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1 month ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
After receiving hundreds of phone calls and emails from raw milk drinkers and producers over the past week, North Carolina state senators scaled back a ban on sales that had been included in their annual Farm Act. During a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Tueday, Sen. Brent Jackson, a Sampson County Republican, introduced an amendment that would let people keep purchasing raw milk as part of herdshares.
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1 month ago |
wunc.org | Adam Wagner
At N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler's request, North Carolina's annual Farm Act is trying to eliminate loopholes that allow people to legally buy unpasteurized milk. Troxler is a longtime critic of raw milk, citing the risks posed by E. coli, listeria and salmonella. It is the discovery of highly pathogenic avian influenza in raw milk that has brought increased urgency to the issue, Troxler told WUNC.
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