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Gov. Cooper has appointed Dionne Delli-Gatti as state Clean Energy Director, after the Senate rejected her as environmental secretary.
Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper s nomination of Dionne Delli-Gatti as environmental secretary. The governor immediately appointed her to another environmental job, as Clean Energy Director. And he named Chief Deputy Secretary John Nicholson as interim secretary.
The 26-20 vote along party lines wasn t a surprise, coming 24 hours after a Republican-controlled Senate committee voted against recommending Delli-Gatti.
North Carolina General Assembly Sen. Paul Newton
Sen. Paul Newton of Cabarrus County led Republican opposition, largely because of a disagreement with Cooper over energy policy. Specifically, Newton said Delli-Gattishould be disqualified because during her confirmation testimony in April she was unable to answer questions about the governor s natural gas strategy. Newton complained a
Hurricane season is getting longer. Building higher sea walls won’t save us.
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The
Washington Postreported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is considering officially moving up the start of the storm season from June 1 to May 15. The move, being reviewed by the NOAA’s National Hurricane Office in Miami, is the result of experts coming to the conclusion that, as global temperatures have consistently risen, so too have the frequency of pre-June storms.
According to the
Post, the past six years have featured tropical storms forming before the official season start date, with last year’s Tropical Storm Arthur announced by the NOAA on May 16. By season’s end in December, 2020 ranked as the most active hurricane season in 15 years with 30 storms topping the 28-storm mark set by 2005.
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Last year, a Coastal Review series for the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines initiative looked at how hurricanes, floods, nor’easters and other major events in recent years significantly dampened any remaining skepticism on the science of climate change.
In this first installment of our latest series supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, we look at how that shift in the debate is changing public policy and what kinds of plans and possible solutions are taking shape.
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, the most active on record, ended without a major storm, but many communities still reeling from storms of previous seasons continue to struggle to repair and recover.
Roads and canals crisscross a marsh with homesites in Down East Carteret County, where connections to the water that surrounds are engrained in the culture. Photo: Mark Hibbs/SouthWings
Last year, a Coastal Review series for the Pulitzer Center’sConnected Coastlines initiative looked at how hurricanes, floods, nor’easters and other major events in recent years significantly dampened any remaining skepticism on the science of climate change.
In this first installment of our latest series supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, we look at how that shift in the debate is changing public policy and what kinds of plans and possible solutions are taking shape.