CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH v. N.C. ENV'L MGMT.

No. 373A14.

772 S.E.2d 445 (2015)

CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH, Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, and mountaintrue (f/k/a western north carolina alliance), Petitioners v. NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION, Respondent, and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Duke Energy Progress, Inc., Respondent-Intervenors.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 11, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Southern Environmental Law Center, by Austin D. Gerken Jr. , Amelia Y. Burnette , J. Patrick Hunter , and Frank Holleman , for petitioner-appellees.

Roy Cooper , Attorney General, by Mary L. Lucasse and Jennie Wilhelm Hauser , Special Deputy Attorneys General, for respondent-appellant.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, Charlotte, by James P. Cooney III ; and Hunton & Williams, LLP, Charlotte, by Charles D. Case , Matthew F. Hanchey , Frank E. Emory, Jr. , and Brent A. Rosser , for respondent-intervenor-appellants.


The substantive issue before us in this case is whether the trial court erred by reversing a portion of a declaratory ruling issued by the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (Commission) on 18 December 2012 relating to the application of the Commission's groundwater protection rules codified at Title 15A, Subchapter...

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