03.04.2013
Topics: Advocacy, Legislature, Senate Bill 10, Southeast Coast
Two state representatives pushed for significant improvements to a bill that remakes the state's regulatory commissions. More >
01.23.2013
Topics: Advocacy, Climate Change, Coastal management, Energy
Producing and refining oil and natural gas is a dirty, smelly business that pollutes the water and air, mars the landscape and, when an accident occurs, can have life-changing effects. And all for what? A few months supply of gasoline? More >
01.10.2013
Topics: Advocacy, Legislature, Politics
A new poll found that a sizable majority of voters thinks it’s prudent for Gov. Pat McCrory to balance economic development with environmental protection. More >
12.19.2012
Topics: Advocacy, Legislature, Politics
Thanks to a change in state law, Gov.-elect Pat McCrory now has lots more discretion to make state government a highly political place to work. More >
10.29.2012
Topics: Beach Renorishment, Coastal management, Storms
After Hurricane Sandy passes, beach communities will again ask for federal money to rebuild their beaches, but it's not clear that's what Congress intended. More >
10.18.2012
Topics: Central Coast, Nature
Todd Miller's commute to work can include flocks of cormorants blackening the sky and pound nets as "highway" markers. More >
09.06.2012
Topics: Advocacy, Southeast Coast, Transportation
The land that the state bought for a proposed mega-port near Southport isn't worth anything near what the state paid for it six years ago. It's time for the state to do right by its taxpayers. More >
08.24.2012
Topics: Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise
The longer climate-change naysayers prevent meaningful collective action against global warming the more severe its economic consequences will be for all of us. More >
08.13.2012
Topics: Advocacy, Coastal management, Southeast Coast, Terminal groins
A complete permit application for a terminal groin at Figure Eight Island has never been submitted. So we ask: Why is an EIS being prepared? More >
08.10.2012
Topics: NCCF in the News
The idea took shape while Todd Miller was clamming with his father. Here, he reflects on 30 years of advocating for the N.C. coast. More >
About the Author: Todd Miller
Todd Miller founded the federation in 1982 and has directed its operations since then. He is a coastal North Carolina native and holds an undergraduate degree in environmental sciences and a masters degree in city and regional planning, both from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He received The Old North State Award from the governor in 2007 and the 2011 National Wetlands Award as a community leader from the Environmental Law Institute. He serves on the Board of Visitors for the UNC Institute of the Environment and as a founding board member of Restore America’s Estuaries. He lives with his wife, Julie, and their two sons in Carteret County.
