An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death
By Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News On a summer afternoon in Burton Park, hip-hop throbs from a car...
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North Carolina’s Iconic College Town Struggles to Redevelop a Toxic Coal Ash Mound
As the Town of Chapel Hill prepares to redevelop land less than two miles from the University of North Carolina campus, some say a draft cleanup plan fails to adequately protect the public from arsenic, cobalt and other toxic metals that were detected in the greenway in 2013.
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Effort To Save a Historic Water Tower Put Lead in This North Carolina Town’s Soil
Pitted with rust, an empty water tower looms over this old mill village. In its short shadow rests an organic community garden, where overripe tomatoes dangle from dying vines and pepper plants droop, yellowed and parched.
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