ISSUES

Supporting Vulnerable Communities of All Races

We provide information on how to even the playing field against fossil fuel companies by focusing on the following issues:

Environmental Justice

  • Clean air, water and soil for all
  • Government transparency and citizen input to proposed local development
  • Corporate and industrial toxics emissions
  • Elimination of nuclear weapons (program since 1997) “#Target 2045”
  • Community pollution
  • Healthy local food and access
  • Pandemic adjustments
  • Environmental racism and racial equity
    • Heired Properties
    • Landfill and toxic dumping
    • Utility cost equity

Climate Change

  • Safe and Clean Energy
    • Replacing nuclear, coal and gas fuel sources
    • No false solutions such as biomass, bridge fuels
    • Apply EJ principals to clean, renewable energy sources
    • Energy and transportation efficiency
  • Land Use & Abuse
    • Urban Sprawl
    • Biodiversity
    • Loss of wildlife
    • Deforestation
    • Consumption patterns

View the latest news, updates and resources by issue:

All Issues
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  • CARE-4-AIR
  • Citizen Input for Local Development
  • Clean Air, Water and Soil
  • Climate Change
  • Community Pollution
  • Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
  • Environmental Justice
  • Land Use & Abuse
  • Racism and Racial Equity
  • Safe and Clean Energy
October 23, 2024 News

The League Line: Fall 2024

  Cover: Victory in Virginia Director’s Report: How Bad Will Weather Related Catastrophes Become? Re-energize Your Campaign with Careful and Creative Planning How our Environment Impacts Mental Health BREDL Air…

October 6, 2024 News

VICTORY IN VIRGINIA!: CTB Rescinds I-73 Approval

On September 17, the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board voted unanimously to rescind their May, 2001 approval of the I-73 corridor location. This vote is a victory for BREDL’s chapter, Virginians…

August 12, 2024 News

BREDL Holds “People’s Hearing” During DAQ Proceeding

On August 1, 2024 North Carolina’s Division of Air Quality held a public hearing for Dominion Energy’s air permit application for the proposed Moriah Energy Center (MEC) in Person County,…

July 28, 2024 Action Alerts

MEC Air Permit Hearing Set for August 1

The North Carolina Division of Air Quality has scheduled a public hearing for Dominion Energy’s air permit application for the proposed Moriah Energy Center (MEC) in Person County, NC. The…

July 13, 2024 News

The League Line: Summer 2024

Cover: The Mountain Valley Pipeline Calamity Director’s Report: We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels Fool’s Gold – The False Promise of Nuclear Care-4-Air update N.C. Chamber Interferes with PFAS Standards Read…

April 12, 2024 News

The League Line: Spring 2024

Cover: Celebrating 40 Years of BREDL! Director’s Report: Protecting the Environmental Community Burke County, GA Death Rates Raise Concerns EPA Review Delays Start of Air Monitoring Project Dominion Proposes 45-Mile…

March 26, 2024 News

Public Meeting to be Held to Announce Burke County Study Findings

Please join BREDL for a public meeting March 28 at 4 p.m. at Burke County Library to discuss a new report on death rates in Burke County, GA following the…

March 1, 2024 News

BREDL Air Monitoring Program Update

BREDL’s air monitoring trailer is scheduled to be collecting data in a Southeast community in early Spring. Our contract partner Wilbur Technical Services (Wilbur) is in the process of purchasing…

December 22, 2023 News

The League Line: Winter 2024

Cover: Outraged Citizens Fight Back Against Proposed LNG Storage Facility Director’s Report: Sand Mining: Is it Coming to a Community Near You? Sailing the World for Ocean Research EPA Approves-Then…

November 12, 2023 Action Alerts

Person County Planning Board Recommends Rezoning for LNG Facility Amid Public Outrage

Residents of southeastern Person County, NC came to the Person County Office Building auditorium for the November 9 meeting of the Person County Planning Board to voice their concerns about…