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North Carolina Open Thread: Coal ash, Beasley/Budd, Medicaid expansion, Sly Baptism and more [1]
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Date: 2022-09-04
Facing South, Sue Sturgis, 9/2/2022
Environmental, civil rights, and community groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Michael Regan for exempting hundreds of toxic coal ash dumps nationwide from a rule designed to protect the environment and public health.
The nonprofit legal group Earthjustice filed the federal lawsuit on Aug. 25 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs in the case are Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment in Tennessee, the Indiana State Conference and LaPorte County Branch of the NAACP, Hoosier Environmental Council in Indiana, Clean Power Lake County in Illinois, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Integrity Project.
"Power plant records reveal that about half of the toxic coal ash waste in the U.S. is entirely exempt from any federal health protections," said plaintiffs' attorney Mychal Ozeta with Earthjustice. "This is outrageous. The coal power industry is poisoning drinking water sources and the air we breathe while causing global warming."
Coal ash is the waste left after burning coal for power and contains toxic substances including arsenic, lead, mercury, and radium. The EPA has acknowledged that the risks to humans associated with coal ash exposure include cancers, neurological and psychiatric problems, cardiovascular damage, and anemia.
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x “Our children need action now. We must not lose any more time — another generation of students — before we do what is right by them,” said Tamika Walker Kelly, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators.
https://t.co/nWAxuhiQg6 #nced #ncpol #LeadwithLeandro #ncga — Public Schools First NC (@PS1NC) August 29, 2022
WRAL, Michael Waldrum, 9/1/2022
When the new ECU Health brand was announced earlier this year, it was launched with a singular vision: To solve complex health care challenges preventing eastern North Carolina from realizing its immense potential. We know that a strong and vibrant health care system is necessary to grow and sustain healthy communities.
Our region, which is home to 1.4 million hard-working people, faces disproportionate rates of chronic conditions – conditions that, when not managed early, result in high medical bills and financial hardship, particularly for those without insurance.
I am proud of the work we’ve done here in the east to create a premier academic health care system and none of this is possible without the incredible work by our health care professionals. They are living the ECU Health mission each and every day by purposefully delivering health care in our communities and training the next generation of health care professionals.
While we have much to be grateful for, it is also necessary to recognize the current state of health care across the nation, within all of North Carolina and here at home. Health systems and hospitals are facing financial challenges largely driven by the pandemic, labor shortages, inflation and market disruptions.
Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin, 9/1/2022
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