The Carolinas Clean Air Coalition is a nonprofit initiative working to restore clean and healthy air to the Central Carolinas region by raising awareness, building partnerships and advocating for policy changes and individual action.
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- Founded:
- 2002
Events
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- Charlotte Day of Climate Action
Midwood Park (Plaza Midwood Neighbo...
Saturday, October 24 at 12:00pm - Community Pot Luck Picnic
CCAC Office
Thursday, September 3 at 6:30pm - Rally to Welcome Secretary of ...
13800 South Lake Drive in Charlotte
Wednesday, August 5 at 11:30am - Climate Change in NC: Impact o...
Charlotte AHEC Airport Training Center
Friday, February 6 at 9:00am - Where Green(backs) Will Flow i...
Whitehead Manor
Thursday, February 5 at 8:30am - Public Hearing on Cliffside Co...
Mac Gray Auditorium, Statesville Se...
Thursday, January 22 at 6:00pm - Public Hearing on Cliffside Co...
Chase High School
Thursday, January 15 at 6:00pm - Pollution Capture Discussion
Central Piedmont Community College,...
Tuesday, October 21 at 7:00pm - NC Diesel Workshop
Catawba County Public Health
Tuesday, October 21 at 8:00am - Clean Energy Discussion
UNC-Charlotte Rm 113, Cone Center
Tuesday, October 14 at 7:00pm
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Carolinas Clean Air Coalition
If you're in Charlotte, join us this Saturday for the International Day of Climate Action or check www.350.org for an action taking place in a city nearest you.
The Midwood Park Community Gardeners in the Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood will host activities between 12:00 and 5:00 at the neighborhood Fall Crawl Festival. The ...nationally known children’s book author, Gail Haley, will be present with a large "Tree of Life" tapestry and a pan of non-toxic paint. Adults will be asked to take a pledge to improve our environment and children will use painted footprints to form leaves on the Tree of Life. Gail will also have her large "Green Man" puppet who will walk in the neighborhood Halloween Parade with Clean Air Carolina's Clean Air Polar Bear.A "green" storytelling tent for children will be set up and information on 350.org and local environmental organizations/websites will be given to festivalgoers. At 3:50 p.m. the music program will be paused briefly for an announcement about the International Day of Climate Action--what it means, how one can get involved. At 4:30 p.m. we will assemble as many people as we can in the park and take pictures with 350.org banners and other signs from groups working to stop climate change. Carolina Clean Air, the Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Team and Greenpeace are helping organize these activities. To get involved contact June Blotnick at june@cleanaircarolina.org.
Time:12:00PM Saturday, October 24th
Location:Midwood Park (Plaza Midwood Neighborhood)
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition encourages you to Campout! Carolina this weekend (even if it's in your own backyard)! All registered campers will be entered in a drawing for an REI tent and Shakori Hills Music Festival tickets! Click to learn more and to register: http://www.campoutcarolina.org/ http://www.campoutcarolina.org/
www.campoutcarolina.org
Pitch a tent in your backyard or favorite North Carolina campsite, turn off or unplug non-essential electrical items, and enjoy an evening outdoors with family and friends. Check out the Find A Campsite page for ideas and to see where others are camping.
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition Carolinas Clean Air Coalition is seeking help in developing a Clean Air Race and Walk event for the Charlotte community. We are seeking volunteers to join our planning team to help make this “signature” fundraising event a success. Interested? Send us an email info@clean-air-coalition.org and let us know!
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition
By now you probably know Duke Energy wants to raise your electric bill by eighteen percent, but did you realize that's nearly $200 a year?! Even worse, over 13.5% of the rate increase will cover costs such as the dirty Cliffside coal plant, now under construction west of Charlotte. And, 4.5% of the rate increase has a...lready been approved for the rising costs of coal. While other utility companies are shutting coal plants down and cutting customer's power bills, Duke Energy wants to continue building its global warming machine at Cliffside and raise our rates to pay for it.
North Carolina residents are ready to move ahead toward a clean energy future with renewable sources of power and real energy efficiency programs. If Duke Energy builds more coal plants, we'll suffer with more air pollution, more mercury in our waterways and fish, and more global warming.
Let's stand together and tell the NC Utilities Commission to not let Duke Energy waste our money! The cost is too high.
CCAC is hosting a Community Pot Luck picnic on Thursday, September 3 from 6:30pm-9:00pm at our office (1801 N Tryon Street, Charlotte) to gather and prepare for the upcoming Cliffside Rate Hike hearing. We will hold a Speaker's Training for those who are interested in voicing their opposition. RSVP to let us know you can join us for the pot luck picnic and don't forget to bring a yummy dish to share!
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition We are now on Twitter! Follow us @cleanairtweet
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition We have just learned U.S. Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu will be in Charlotte tomorrow, Wednesday August 5, to speak to local workers about rebuilding the nation's economy. This is our opportunity to greet him with a warm welcome! We will rally with colorful signs at the business site, 13800 South Lake Drive in Char...lotte, between 11:30am-1:00pm. Please join us if you can!
Time:11:30AM Wednesday, August 5th
Location:13800 South Lake Drive in Charlotte
Carolinas Clean Air Coalition Once again, the American Lung Association's State of the Air report gives Mecklenburg County a failing grade for its high levels of ozone pollution. How does your county rank?
www.stateoftheair.org
(1) * indicates incomplete monitoring data for all three years. Therefore, those counties are excluded from the grade analysis.(2) A dash (-) indicates that there is no monitor collecting data in the county.
Hundreds turned out to talk about an air quality permit for a controversial power plant expansion in Rutherford County. The permit is for a new coal-fired boiler at Duke Energy's Cliffside Plant. The permit would classify the generator as a "minor" source of pollution...
State wiill investigate, but questions surround report that schools were overexposed to toxic air. By Bruce Henderson bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Thursday, Dec...
by Margaret Williams on 12/03/2008 U.S. District Judge Lacy H. Thornburg has ruled that Duke Energy must comply with the Clean Air Act for its new unit at the Cliffside power plant in Rutherford County. The Dec...
