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As the H1N1 virus spreads, the South's share of children dying from swine flu has declined -- but the region still accounts for more than two out of five swine flu fatalities. More...
Two House Democrats have introduced legislation guaranteeing workers ordered to stay home because of illness five paid sick days. Labor advocates call the measure a first step toward the comprehensive sick-leave policy the U.S. needs. More...
The federal government is urging employers to allow sick workers to stay home -- so why does Wal-Mart punish flu-stricken employees for taking sick leave? More...
The Government Accountability Office finds that 26 coal-burning power plants have reported spills or other unpermitted releases of coal ash from 35 surface impoundments over the past decade. More...
A trailblazing African-American physician with a long record of service to Alabama's rural poor, Dr. Regina Benjamin has said she will emphasize disease prevention and public health. More...
Environmental leaders representing more than a dozen polluted communities across the South called on federal officials to take action to protect low-income communities and people of color from toxic contamination. More...
13 states clustered in or near the South have accounted for 66% of child deaths from flu this season, according to government officials. More...
A company wants to place coal ash from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant into an old mine atop a nearby mountain. But environmentalists and local residents oppose the plan, citing potential health problems. More...
A groundbreaking government report shows that few Americans are eating enough fruits and vegetables -- and the situation is especially dire in the Southern states. Are policy makers doing all they can to encourage a healthy diet, especially for children? More...
A new analysis of self-reported data from power companies finds that pollution is seeping into the groundwater from 13 coal ash ponds located across the state -- in some cases at levels 380 times state standards. More...
A New York Times investigation finds that millions of U.S. residents are drinking toxic tap water -- and many states across the South and elsewhere are doing a poor job of enforcing laws designed to prevent that from happening. More...
New research by scientists with Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology details hazards from the coal ash spilled last year from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant. The findings come as TVA considers shutting down some of its older coal plants. More...
A state commission spent two years crafting rules to monitor water pollution at factory farms -- but a state senator with close ties to the hog industry got his colleagues to unanimously pass a bill nixing those rules. Will the House follow suit? More...
The dean of the University of North Carolina's school of public health visited a center of industrial hog and chicken farming in her state recently and came away "sad, angry and shocked." More...
With concerns growing over public health problems associated with industrial hog farms, environmental advocates are calling on North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue to launch a task force to study the problem. But what happened when advocates tried to get state lawmakers to hear their case shows how hard it is to take on Boss Hog. More...
Dr. Regina Benjamin, winner of numerous honors including a MacArthur Genius Award, will be an important voice in the debate over health care reform. More...
Newly released test results of samples taken from a waterway near last year's massive ash spill show dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals. Is it really a good idea to encourage people to play in the water? More...
Two reports try to measure the cost of coal -- and both find that the "black gold" of Appalachia causes more problems than it solves, reports Bill Bishop of the Daily Yonder. More...
A new federal report documents the changes the U.S. South has already experienced because of global warming and warns of more dangerous disruption to come if we fail to rein in carbon emissions. Are we doing enough to address the problem? More...
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