Issue: Climate Change

  • 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 Pauses-Importation of PFAS Laden Waste to N.C.
    • BREDL Welcomes Scott Lineberger
    • Our Politicians, Our Shattered Dreams
    • Practical Radicals and the Movement Action Plan
    • BREDL Air Monitoring Program Update

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  • The League Line: Fall 2023

    • Cover: BREDL Air Monitoring Program Nears Launch
    • Director’s Report: Internet Safety – Best Practices for Environmentalists
    • Fight Climate Change – Why Maui Matters
    • Pollution is Affecting Our Children
    • Protesting for Peace – Stories from the Netherlands
    • BREDL Chapters Featured in UNC Study on Well-Testing Disparities

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  • The League Line: Spring 2023

    • Cover: Winston-Salem residents seek legislative changes in wake of fertilizer plant fire
    • Director’s Report: Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming means taking action!
    • There is no away for PFAS…
    • BREDL’s Renee Cail honored at International Women’s Day 4th Annual Recognition Breakfast
    • BREDL seeks MVP compliance with Clean Water Act via LiDAR
    • The Last Frontier
    • PFAS public notification bill dies in VA General Assembly

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  • Natural Gas Pipeline – Property Value Devaluation

    Property values plunged on parcels whose owners sought relief through the Atlantic Coast Pipeline reassessment hearing process, according to a property records search conducted in Highland and Nelson Counties by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.

    The construction of the proposed pipeline and resultant losses in property value are devastating for directly affected landowners. Pipelines drive down property values substantially, limiting landowner’s use of their properties and leading to an increased real estate tax rate for every property owner.

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  • The League Line: Winter 2023

    • Cover: BREDL Awarded Major EPA Grant
    • Director’s Report: Corruption keeps fossil fuel industry strong
    • One year after fertilizer plant fire, questions remain in Winston-Salem
    • Who’s helping who? We have questions!
    • Community campaign drives court battle
    • Roanoke River GenX contamination source found
    • Activist to activists
    • Photos: National Pipeline Eminent Domain Conference

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  • Have Fun, Build Your Group and Raise Money!

    You can have fun during your meetings and events AND you can build your group AND you can raise money, all at the same time! So, you might ask the question: Besides raising money, WHY should our group fundraise and WHEN should we fundraise?

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  • The League Line: Fall 2022

    • Cover: A Victory for the People!
    • Director’s Report: An environmental nightmare called eminent domain.
    • “Forever chemical” GenX found in Roanoke River and local drinking water supply reservoir
    • North and South Forks of the Roanoke River focus of GenX investigation
    • Firefighters are exposed to toxic PFAS in their personal protective equipment
    • Chapel Hill signs and bus ads removed, raising First Amendment concerns
    • New Mexico – not a sacrifice zone EPA Risk Management Program proposed rule leaves communities at risk

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  • BREDL requests FERC to deny MVP an extension of time

    In our comments submitted to FERC, BREDL: (1) Requests that FERC deny request from Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC (MVP, LLC) for an extension of time until October 13, 2026 to complete construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) (2) In the event that MVP, LLC is granted an extension of time to complete construction of the MVP, BREDL requests that:

    • Revised Erosion and Sediment Control (ESC) and Stormwater Management (SWM) plans for the MVP be a condition of the requested extension
    • consideration of cumulative aquatic impacts of building both the MVP and the Southgate extension be a condition of the requested extension

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  • Introduction to Strategic Planning by Bill Moyer

    There is nothing mysterious or complicated about strategic planning. It is based on common sense. In its simplest form it can be summarized by four basic questions: What is our organization’s purpose? Where are we now, in relation to our purpose? Where do we want to be (at some point down the road)? And how do we get from here to there?

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  • BREDL Comments to NC Utilities Commission

    BREDL calls upon the NC Utilities Commission to reject the Integrated Resource Plan submitted by Dominion Energy North Carolina and require a cleaner, smarter plan. And we support similar calls directed towards Duke Energy’s plan.

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