Health and Public Safety
February 27, 2009 -
It hasn't been a good year so far in terms of preventing regulatory failures at Southern manufacturing plants. The nation is still reeling from a massive salmonella outbreak linked to peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Blakely, Ga., that has sickened sickened some 666 people and may have contributed to nine deaths.
February 26, 2009 -
North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.
February 23, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera
February 20, 2009 -
A new study by Action for Children, a Raleigh, N.C.-based advocacy group, found that North Carolina's minority children lag far behind white children in several measures of a child's well-being, including health, poverty and education.
February 17, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera
