The North Carolina Department of Justice’s Environmental Enhancement Grant program began after a 2000 agreement between the Attorney General’s Office and Smithfield Foods. Under that agreement, Smithfield provides $2 million to the state every year to be distributed among environmental projects across North Carolina.

The city of Virginia Beach, Va., has faced numerous climate challenges from hurricanes to sunny day flooding, and most recently the April 30, 2023 tornado impacting residents in the Great Neck neighborhood located in the northern part of the city.

The Norfolk, Virginia, base can’t just wall itself off.

Hundreds of communities across North Carolina are burdened by multiple pollution sources

Rodanthe's collapsing beachfront homes, a warning for other coastal communities.

A Norfolk beach community and city planners are in agreement that East Beach is losing sand more quickly than predictions.

Some local governments in Florida have also tried enticing homeowners to leave their properties due to the threats posed by hurricanes, rising sea levels and coastal flooding.

The National Park Service has purchased a pair of crumbling oceanfront homes on the northern end of Rodanthe, a move that could be the first step toward removing more homes in that erosion-threatened part of the Outer Banks.

The National Park Service recently bought two neighboring houses in Rodanthe, North Carolina. The houses were both at risk of collapsing on the shore due to beach erosion. In February of 2022 another Rodanthe beach house was washed into the sea

RODANTHE — Early in the last virtual meeting of the Threatened Oceanfront Structures Interagency Task Force Oct. 12, Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent David Hallac provided details about a pilot program in which the agency recently used nonprofit conservation trust funds to purchase two endangered oceanfront houses in Rodanthe.

The Threatened Oceanfront Structures Interagency Work Group held its third and final meeting as a webinar on Thursday, Oct. 12. The meeting focused on the role government agencies and regulations play when structures on the oceanfront are threatened by a retreating shoreline that often puts a building in the surf zone.

About 30 miles off the coast of eastern North Carolina stands Frying Pan Tower, a local maritime relic that looms over a frying pan-shaped, sandy ridge known as Frying Pan Shoals.

A Virginia couple argued Covid-19 restrictions blocking access to their North Carolina beach house amounted to a seizure of their property.

Thousands of North Carolina coastal homeowners have learned that their home insurance will not be renewed

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCBD)- Erosion on the Isle of Palms continues to be a big concern for IOP city leaders and property owners.

More than 2,000 policies written in the northeastern part of the state are being non-renewed, including 838 in Dare County, due to weather-related losses.

Despite the last-ditch efforts of environmental groups and local governments, the North Carolina General Assembly approved a long-awaited state budget that includes provisions that strip counties and municipalities of certain governing powers.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has completed the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for Dominion Energy's massive Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, a proposed 2.6-gigawatt installation off the coast of Virginia Beach. It is a significant regulatory milestone and marks the end of the environmental review process for the project.

On the afternoon of Sept. 1, Cape Hatteras National Seashore temporarily closed a stretch of beach between the Buxton Beach Access and the area of the Buxton jetties after substantial post-storm beach erosion was observed and reports of a strong smell of fuel were received from visitors.

Thomas K. Ruppert, a coastal planning specialist with Florida Sea Grant and thought leader on legal policy around sea-level rise adaptation and other areas of environmental law, has been selected as the assistant provost for coastal resilience and director of the new Virginia Coastal Resilience Collaborative (VCRC) at William & Mary.

North Atlantic right whales, which calve off the Georgia coast, have fewer than 350 individuals remaining

In 2018, Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, taking 42 lives and costing more than $16 billion in estimated damage. Now, five years later, many residents and communities are still reeling from the storm’s floodwaters. Blue tarps remain on unpatched roofs, businesses have not returned and communities have experienced disproportionate recoveries.

The tiny isles date back to the 1920s and they've unexpectedly contributed a positive impact on the area.

MOREHEAD CITY — A study of the country’s two largest estuaries reveals that inshore coastal waters are not necessarily experiencing what scientists say is a worrisome global trend of increasingly acidic oceans.

MOREHEAD CITY — In response to written questions from N.C. Environmental Management Commission (EMC) Chair Robin Smith, a state Department of Justice attorney confirmed Thursday that the state no longer has any jurisdiction over isolated wetlands.