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Several hundred people work in the Office of Research and Development at EPA's campus at Research Triangle Park. This office is being dissolved. Researchers will now move to different program offices.
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The Cape Fear River Basin is the source of drinking water for 1.5 million North Carolina residents. It is also where three municipal governments — Asheboro, Greensboro and Reidsville — are legally dumping dangerous levels of 1,4-dioxane, a colorless industrial solvent linked to cancer.
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Under the Trump administration, the EPA is reportedly considering plans to dissolve its scientific research office. At Research Triangle Park, several hundred people work in this division at EPA’s large regional campus.
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Thirty probationary staff members were recently terminated from the Environmental Protection Agency's regional campus at Research Triangle Park. This comes as thousands of federal employees across the country are also losing their jobs.
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Some towns are providing assistance for people on private systems, about half the state’s households.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and EPA Administrator Michael Regan joined state and city leaders in Charlotte on Thursday to announce the recipients of federal grants aimed at promoting private investment in clean energy projects.
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While new national clean air protections are in place, a UNC-Chapel Hill study looked at how the chemical composition of air pollution has changed across time and space.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says the drive for clean water and air for minority and low-income residents is inexorably linked to the march toward racial equality championed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Between recent studies and lawsuits against PFAS manufacturers filed by Attorney General Josh Stein, polluters are being put on notice that they have to clean up.
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Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating an office for advancing environmental justice. (Aired on ATC on Oct. 3, 2022.)