by admin | Feb 20, 2024 | Environment
Adam Searing, Town Council member, has been the lone Council Member on the Chapel Hill Board to continue to call for a clean-up of the coal ash dump. The new EPA report about the toxicity of coal ash has caught the attention of the Chapel Hill Town Council, as well as...
by admin | Jun 8, 2023 | Environment, Mobility
Sign the letter to the NC DOT objecting to the intersection design plans. The DOT plans propose a “North Quadrant Road” over I-40 that would connect New Hope Commons shopping center and Walmart with Eastowne and that would ruin the 20 acre site that is a North...
by admin | Oct 17, 2021 | Environment
Going Green by Example: A Virtual Tour of the Turkish Cultural Center The Turkish Cultural Center on East Franklin Street has opened and brings to Chapel Hill a wonderful example of a green building. Funded in part by the foundation of UNC professor and Nobel Prize...
by admin | Jun 7, 2019 | Environment
Here are some affordable alternatives to approving a tax dedicated to address climate change. We commend and share the County Commissioners’ interest in addressing the challenge of global warming. However, every tax increase makes Orange County a less affordable...
by admin | Apr 26, 2019 | Environment
The Town Council is considering a resolution put forward by the Environmental Stewardship Board’s resolution to extend the existing Council Energy Policy for rezonings to include the installation of rooftop solar energy systems. “The Environmental Stewardship...
