[Durham INC] Sierra Club on protest petitions

[Pat Carstensen]

Sorry about the multiple copies -- hotmail was being a mulish as some legislators…...

From: pats1717 at hotmail.com
To: inc-list at durhaminc.org
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:20:23 -0400
Subject: [Durham INC] Sierra Club on protest petitions




I'm not sure what Tom's sources are saying, but the Sierra Club lobbyists are seeing the bill that contains the theft of the right to a protest petition coming to a vote tomorrow morning.
Regards, pat

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:13:57 -0400
From: molly.diggins at sierraclub.org
Subject: update from the legislature: Thursday night
To: NC-CONS-FORUM at LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG

The legislature reconvened tonight.  Both chambers will be in session in the morning.  No action on coal ash tonight (iikely deferred to November).  




Both chambers will meet in the morning --either for the final session of the year, or the last session before a lame deck session in November.




Here's what we are looking for tomorrow:


Molly







It appears that the final action of the 2014 legislative session (pending a lame duck session in November) will be to take up a set of regulatory reform provisions negotiated behind closed doors, with an unknown outcome.


S 734 began life as a polluters’ wish list. As the House sent it back, it was a more narrowly focused and non-environmental bill.


The question before the chambers tomorrow is, what is in the new bill?


Provisions to watch for include:



Arbitrarily lowers stormwater management standards for certain coastal development;  (“coastal grandfather”)



Allows development of fragile coastal areas to continue while a development permit is being challenged.  It raises the bar to have a complaint heard by the Coastal Resources Commission, making it less likely that citizens can be heard on inappropriate development.  (“CAMA permit”)



Isolated wetlands -  Homebuilders have been trying all session to eliminate protections for isolated wetlands. One provision would effectively do that.



Eliminate air quality monitors.

-- 
Molly Diggins, State Director

NC Sierra Club19  W. Hargett Street Suite 210Raleigh NC 27601919.833-8467 molly.diggins at sierraclub.org

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