Issue: Community Pollution

  • The League Line: Winter 2023

    • Cover: BREDL Awarded Major EPA Grant
    • Director’s Report: Corruption keeps fossil fuel industry strong
    • One year after fertilizer plant fire, questions remain in Winston-Salem
    • Who’s helping who? We have questions!
    • Community campaign drives court battle
    • Roanoke River GenX contamination source found
    • Activist to activists
    • Photos: National Pipeline Eminent Domain Conference

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  • The League Line: Fall 2022

    • Cover: A Victory for the People!
    • Director’s Report: An environmental nightmare called eminent domain.
    • “Forever chemical” GenX found in Roanoke River and local drinking water supply reservoir
    • North and South Forks of the Roanoke River focus of GenX investigation
    • Firefighters are exposed to toxic PFAS in their personal protective equipment
    • Chapel Hill signs and bus ads removed, raising First Amendment concerns
    • New Mexico – not a sacrifice zone EPA Risk Management Program proposed rule leaves communities at risk

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  • SC woman concerned over new gas pipeline in front of home, officials say it’s legal (WPDE.com)

    A woman living in Atlantic Beach reached out to ABC15 with concerns after she said a gas pipeline was installed in front of her home — without notice.

    Kathy Andrews said the home she’s lived in for nearly two decades on 32nd Avenue in Atlantic Beach was disrupted a couple of weeks ago.

    Andrews said she walked out of her door to see Dominion Energy workers digging a hole in her front yard; something she said she never gave permission or received a notice for.

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  • BREDL expresses our concern in a letter to NC DEQ Secretary Biser regarding the Chemours Total Organic Fluorine (TOF) method report

    Transferring a pollutant from one medium to another is a virtual shell game

    Jun. 06, 2022: The Chemours facility has caused massive pollution in the Cape Fear region and the pollution is ongoing. Thousands of people have been impacted.

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