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The Cape Fear River basin, the state’s largest river basin, extends from near Greensboro and High Point in the Piedmont to the Wilmington area on the coast.

Environmental Health

EPA to NC: Solvent discharge limits deadline ‘mandatory’

by Coastal Review Online January 18, 2025

Shows a man in a suit standing at a podium as the crowd cheers and takes photos. He has won in the 2024 election and will be involved in health policy. A group of family members stand behind him.

State Health Policy

How the Nov. 5 election will shape health policy in the coming legislative session

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Will Atwater, Rachel Crumpler, Taylor Knopf and Grace Vitaglione November 7, 2024May 16, 2025

A Black woman stands in from of a architectural plan displaying a proposed housing development. She has her right hand resting on plan and his smiling as she looks at the camera. She is wearing a multi-colored blouse that includes large brown and orange flowers on the shoulder area. She's standing outside, under a white canopy on a sunny day.

Environmental Health

Grantmakers program aims to empower small community-based organizations to tackle environmental justice initiatives

by Will Atwater January 12, 2024January 12, 2024

It's a sunny day, and a large white commercial truck with the words Stericycle in green is parked in a loaded dock in the back of a multi-story brick building. The word Stericycle, written in green, appears on the door panel and the trailer the truck is hauling.

Environmental Health

As hospital systems begin to grapple with medical waste, environmentalists call for tighter regulations

by Will Atwater October 27, 2023October 27, 2023

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.

Environmental Health

Chemours expansion plans infuriate environmentalists

by CityView Today September 9, 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

Environmental Health

Forever chemical found in Cumberland County wells 25 miles from Chemours

by CityView Today March 19, 2022