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shows orange crime scene tape with the words "Police line, do not cross" against a dark sky with blurred lights in the distance. Violence interrupters are hoping to avoid this kind of scenario with their work.
Posted inPublic Health

Greensboro tries new approach to curb gun violence

by Isabel Lewis September 18, 2023September 19, 2023

By Isabel Lewis Arthur Durham is keenly aware of the impact that gunfire and other street violence can have on a community. As a boy growing up in Philadelphia, that was the world he lived in. His mother battled heroin addiction, and his father was absent.  “To say I had it hard would be an […]

A graphic diagram that illustrates the negative impacts PFAS exposure can have on adult male and female humans.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

PFAS evidence piling up, putting polluters on notice

by Will Atwater November 1, 2022November 1, 2022
Looking up at a large refinery structure built at a facility that has dumped PFAS and other fluorochemicals into nearby rivers, the air. Lots of steel and tubing.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Chemours expansion plans infuriate environmentalists

by CityView Today September 9, 2022September 8, 2022
Shows a hand holding a test tube that's got river water, potentially with contaminants such as PFAS, in it.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Chemours challenges EPA health advisory for GenX

by Coastal Review Online July 15, 2022July 14, 2022
shows a smiling man sitting on a pallet of plastic drinking water bottles that he has to use because his well water is tainted by PFAS
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Forever chemical found in Cumberland County wells 25 miles from Chemours

by CityView Today March 19, 2022March 19, 2022
shows a man and a woman standing in front of the steps to their house where their water has been contaminated by PFAS and other chemicals
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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