Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 3/28/22


North Carolina needs to pick up the pace on turning Gov. Roy Cooper’s climate change goals into action if it’s going to hit benchmarks the governor laid out, the Environmental Defense Fund said Monday. The 55-year-old environmental advocacy group released an analysis Monday of the state’s progress toward Cooper’s pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030. The upshot: “not currently on track,” despite executive orders and a major energy policy bill that passed the state legislature last year with bipartisan support.

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