Posted inChapel Hill, Climate

We’re liveblogblogging the hearing on UNC’s plans to burn PFAS-containing pellets

by Triangle BlogBlog

Hello! We’re at Town Hall where people are streaming in for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ)  public hearing tomorrow at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 6pm to consider UNC’s request to modify its air quality permit to allow it to also burn engineered pellets in its boilers at […]

Posted inBike and Walk, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill Transit, Connectivity, Transportation

The NSBRT project receives 24.4M in additional funding!

by John Rees

Yesterday (January 15) the  Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded an additional $24.4 million dollars in Capital Investment Grants to Chapel Hill Transit’s North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill. What does that mean?   This money is unallocated federal dollars from fiscal years 22 and 23, so it reduces […]

Posted inChapel Hill, Journalism

The Local Reporter published a piece about a council work session. Only problem? It never took place.

by Geoff Green

Update: On January 17th, The Local Reporter appears to have deleted the article from their homepage, with no editorial note or indication that they published it in the first place. You can see the original article here. It’s also still available at the original URL. On January 15th, The Local Reporter published an in-depth piece […]

Posted inChapel Hill, Downtown, Public Comment, UNC

January 16: Hearing on UNC’s plans to burn PFAS-containing pellets

by Triangle BlogBlog

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality’s (DAQ) will hold a public hearing tomorrow night at Chapel Hill Town Hall at 6pm to consider UNC’s request to modify its air quality permit to allow it to also burn engineered pellets in its boilers at the co-gen plant, which is located in […]