Lisa Sorg | NC Newsline

Energy & Environment

NC utilities to receive $47 million to keep toxic lead out of drinking water

Lisa Sorg | NC Newsline

Beneath the yards of an untold number of homes in North Carolina lay water lines installed 100 years ago. Some of these service lines, which send drinking water from the main pipes to the houses, contain lead, a neurotoxin. Under the EPA’s proposed rule, all lead-contaminated service lines would be replaced within 10 years.
Energy & Environment

Coal ash more hazardous than previously known, EPA says, could alter Chapel Hill cleanup plan

Lisa Sorg | NC Newsline

There are at least 72 structural fill sites in North Carolina, some of them with exposed ash. Coal ash could increase a person’s cancer risk significantly more than previously estimated, according to a recent EPA report, raising questions about the safety of places where ash has been used as structural fill.