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Category: Environmental Health

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Posted inMedicaid

A look ahead for health in N.C. for 2022

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith, Taylor Knopf and Elizabeth Thompson January 3, 2022December 31, 2021
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NC Health News’ top ten reader picks in 2021

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith, Taylor Knopf and Elizabeth Thompson December 30, 2021December 30, 2021
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Posted inEnvironmental Health

Extreme heat prompts effort to protect farmworkers and other laborers

by Daily Yonder December 28, 2021December 27, 2021
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Posted inRural Health

How the infrastructure package could impact Appalachians living with failing water systems

by Southerly Magazine December 28, 2021December 27, 2021
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Posted inEnvironmental Health

To understand health effects of PFAS polluted water, residents submit blood samples

by Rose Hoban December 15, 2021December 15, 2021
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Posted inEnvironmental Health

Decades of legal battles over pollution by industrial hog farms haven’t changed much for eastern NC residents burdened by environmental racism

by Melba Newsome October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

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