Source: Celeste Gracia, WUNC, 12/6/19


A new report finds the North Carolina General Assembly cut funding for the state Department of Environmental Quality by approximately 34 percent over a decade. Only three other states in the country cut more funding for environmental regulators in the past decade. The report from the Environment Integrity Project says from 2008 through 2018, funding for pollution control programs fell from $136 million to $90 million. Almost 430 jobs were also eliminated during this time.

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