A chemical maker’s North Carolina plant may have broken federal law by failing to notify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
Articles by Emery P. Dalesio
The largest penalty a polluter has paid North Carolina should change the way one of the country’s biggest chemical companies...
Floodwaters rose about 15 inches (40 centimeters) into Danielle Rees’ home in September when Hurricane Florence drenched this tidewater city...
Dozens of neighbors of a North Carolina chemical plant had industrial compounds in their bloodstreams, but tests by state and...
The sharp partisanship that’s typified North Carolina’s government was buried temporarily on Monday as legislators approved spending $400 million to...
Hurricane Florence is testing the resolve of farmers in the Carolinas, who could face billions of dollars in agricultural damage...

A federal jury decided Aug. 5 that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three...
A federal jury decided Friday that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North...
A federal jury in North Carolina has punished the world’s largest pork producer, deciding Smithfield Foods should pay two neighbors...
Duke Energy Corp. will pay a $156,000 penalty to for polluting ground and surface waters in North Carolina with potentially...