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Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Tag: air quality

Posted inEnvironmental Health

Algal bloom research effort a community collaboration

by Coastal Review Online February 11, 2023February 8, 2023

By Megan May Coastal Review Online At the end of a gravel road, tucked deep into the woods, bald cypress trees dot the shoreline of Bennett’s Mill Pond. Great blue herons wade in the shallows, searching for their next meal. It’s July in North Carolina, and time on the water would be the perfect way […]

Close-up image of a PurpleAir air quality sensor attached to a black rod that is mounted to an outdoor wall.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Sampson County is set to receive support in establishing an air quality monitoring program

by Will Atwater November 18, 2022November 20, 2022
Shows two women in a lab, manipulating tools in order to test water samples, which are arranged on the tabletop
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Understaffed environmental agency ‘stretched to the limit’

by Coastal Review Online November 10, 2022November 9, 2022
A bulldozer rolls over a mountain of trash at a landfill site. People in Sampson County worry about contaminants such as creosote in the landfill near them.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Sampson County residents fear contaminated soil could be headed their way

by Will Atwater July 27, 2022August 30, 2022
shows a coal plant with steam puffing from one of the smokestacks, a concern in the fight against climate change, air pollution
Posted inEnvironmental Health

North Carolina petition to curb carbon dioxide emissions advances

by Greg Barnes June 21, 2021July 13, 2021
Industrial looking monitors for air quality as a proxy for air quality standards
Posted inEnvironmental Health

NC State professor says more people will die if air quality standards left unchanged

by Greg Barnes April 17, 2020April 26, 2020

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