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Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Donald van der Vaart. Official DEQ portrait.

Environmental Health, Featured, State Health Policy

NC Environmental Chief to Trump: Rein In Obama’s EPA

by Catherine Clabby November 21, 2016November 20, 2016

NIEHS' campus in Research Triangle Park.

The Hazard Hunters

by Catherine Clabby November 18, 2016June 12, 2024

At the height of the tourism season in North Carolina, the state Division of Air Quality published this image online to celebrate improvements in North Carolina’s air quality. A deciview is a unit used to measure differences in visibility. Photo credit: NC Department of Environmental Quality / National Park Service

Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Featured, Public Health, State Health Policy

What The Election Could Mean for NC: Environmental Health

by Catherine Clabby November 14, 2016November 15, 2016

Well water samples give scientists more insight into where the highests levels of manganese are likely to turn up in drinking water wells in the Piedmont. The N.C. State University researchers plotted where they found those sites in well sampling data. Much of them cluster atop the Carolina Slate Belt.

Environmental Health, Featured

Manganese in Wells More Widespread Than Previously Thought

by Catherine Clabby September 20, 2016July 14, 2017

To lower sample bottles from a bridge, graduate students Catalina Lopez and Zachary Hopkins use a plastic cord dispenser, a long rope, and PVC pipe drilled with holes so it can sink to move a sample bottle into the Haw River and back up again. Photo by Julie Williams Dixon

Environmental Health, Featured, Research News

Tainted Waters: New Drinking Water Threat Concerns Scientists, Officials

by Catherine Clabby September 12, 2016September 12, 2016

This AirBeam was on display at the 2015 Minnesota State Fair. Photo courtesy of airbeam2 / Flicker (Creative Commons)

Making Air Pollution Visible

by Catherine Clabby August 23, 2016November 13, 2023