North Carolina's attorney general has partnered with a national law firm with extensive experience in PFAS litigation, signaling a potentially significant expansion of the state's legal efforts against companies that put these "forever chemicals" into the air and water in North Carolina.
The so-called "forever chemicals" are ubiquitous in North Carolina, especially in the Cape Fear River basin. AG Josh Stein says the state must hold polluters accountable.
While nursing homes and prisons made up most rural hot spots in the spring, growing evidence now points to a different major “engine of spread” that has lurked beneath the radar of public awareness and official recognition: meat-processing.
The pandemic may have slowed reporting of tick-borne diseases, but the insects are more prevalent than ever and heading south, some carrying new diseases.
Officials warned residents to stay out of harm’s way as at least two people were killed by tornadoes, and two others from fallen trees. Millions were left without power.
Utilities and farmers are turning cow manure into power — removing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere in the process. But is burning methane a climate solution or just a step on the way to green energy?
Every part of North Carolina is going to face climate-related threats in the coming years.That means there will be tough conversations about landslides in the mountains; flooding along the coast and in the Piedmont; and heat throughout.
A new study found levels of the widespread herbicide and its breakdown products reduced, on average, more than 70 percent in both adults and children after just six days of eating organic.
"Many of the chemical profiles that we see in cetaceans are similar to the types of chemical profiles that we see in humans who live in those coastal areas."
