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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
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Community Empowerment Through Economic Resilience
A newly formed group of community members and nonprofits is seeking to help Person County, NC create a more vibrant and resilient economy. The group originally formed after Person County…
BREDL Announces Deployment of “The B.E.A.S.T.”
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) has officially launched our community air monitoring project featuring the B.E.A.S.T. utility trailer equipped with high-end air monitoring equipment. B.E.A.S.T is the acronym…
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,…
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…
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…
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…