EPA

The EPA has awarded $53 million in grants for air quality testing in communities around the country, including three in North Carolina. The money will go to areas where pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to environmental and health disparities.

When the U.S. Supreme Court last week limited the EPA's power to fight climate change, it brought an outcry from environmentalists. But experts say the decision was narrow and doesn't rule out further action.

The EPA says a former textile dyeing plant in South Carolina is among a dozen hazardous waste sites nationwide that have been added to the Superfund National Priorities List.

A South Carolina paper mill is now facing a third federal lawsuit from neighbors. The suit filed Tuesday says the plant's emissions are causing pollution and making them sick.

The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a South Carolina paper mill to come up with a plan for reducing hydrogen sulfide emissions that are causing unpleasant odors.

Moving forward on a pledge to restore “scientific integrity,” the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Michael Regan, is reversing Trump administration actions that sidelined many academic scientists from key advisory boards in favor of industry figures. Regan was formerly the secretary of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development and North Carolina regulator Michael Regan to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, picking up the pace for confirmations in President Joe Biden's Cabinet.

Asbestos contamination from an old factory in Davidson is not just an environmental concern on site. It's also a problem throughout the historically African American neighborhood nearby. Today, in the second of our three-part series Asbestos Town, WFAE environmental reporter David Boraks looks at how Davidson is still dealing with the legacies of its asbestos-producing past, including long-simmering distrust from the Black community.

Environmental Protection Agency contractors will be back in Davidson Wednesday for more soil tests at homes near an old asbestos mill. They're trying to see if any additional properties are contaminated with asbestos from the former Carolina Asbestos factory near downtown.

Federal environmental officials say they've finished testing more than 100 additional properties around an old asbestos mill in Davidson. Only six --…