Category Archives: United States

Great Pee Dee River protected from future coal plant

Maria Gallucci’s April 5th Reuters article, In Quiet End to a Coal Battle, Utility Puts Canceled Plant Parts Up for Sale, demonstrates that the five year saga over constructing a coal plant on the Great Pee Dee River is clearly over.  Unfortunately, a sale might mean that this relic of technology gets erected in a […]
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Rising to the sea’s challenge

Orrin Pilkey’s op-ed article, Rising to the sea’s challenge, was featured on newsobserver.com on March 1, 2011. To its everlasting credit, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) is trying to institute new development policies along our shoreline that recognize sea level rise. It is a splendid display of bureaucratic courage and foresight. The basic […]
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Collaboration recognized by CoastalCare.org

The following article about the ongoing collaboration of Mary Edna Fraser and Orrin Pilkey appeared on CoastalCare.org.  Their forum is on a mission to raise awareness of the many unsustainable practices that are harming the world’s beaches and coasts, advocate for sensible science-based policies and regulations that will protect and preserve coastlines and beaches around […]
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