Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS) employees helped create a visual map of fine particulate matter on the CHS main campus at Carolinas Medical Center! This was accomplished in partnership with Clean Air Carolina as part of the 2017 EarthShare Corporate Challenge...
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Medical Advocates for Healthy Air recently joined the Concerned Citizens of Richmond County (CCRC) and The Dogwood Alliance for the Rally for Health and Environmental Justice. The rally was held in Dobbins Heights, a small, low-income, predominately African American...
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By Stephanie Carson RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina's scientists are doing anything but breathing easily about the future of the state's air quality as the Trump administration pursues the dismantling of the Clean Power Plan and other environmental regulations. And...
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By Briana Goins DOBBINS HEIGHTS — Richmond County residents gathered for a health and environmental justice rally on Saturday afternoon at Dobbins Heights Community Park. The Dogwood Alliance, an Asheville-based environmental organization, joined members of Concerned...
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“Why don’t people talk about climate change?” Greg Kearney, assistant professor of public health in the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, asked at the Climate Change & Health Symposium the university hosted in March. “There’s a low perception of...
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High school student David Marin from Northwest School of the Arts (NWSA) contacted Clean Air Carolina recently, interested to learn more about our AirKeepers Citizen Science Program. Marin started an after school Environmental Club “to make helping the environment...
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Citizen Scientist Blog William H. Schlesinger is one of the nation’s leading ecologists and earth scientists and a passionate advocate for translating science for lay audiences. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has served as dean of the Nicholas School...
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While federal climate policies seem to be taking a leave of absence from reality, here in North Carolina, we have three great legislative proposals to support. You can join your fellow North Carolinians in supporting these proposals that will further our state’s leadership in addressing climate change by adding your name to our supporting sign-on letters.
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According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, North Carolina ranks second in the United States for solar energy capacity – more than relentlessly sunny states like Texas and Arizona. The smart policies that allowed us to take advantage of our solar resources have resulted in a boom in clean-energy jobs and an economic windfall for rural counties. It’s also great news for clean air – solar panels do not emit toxins or climate change drivers like particulate matter, mercury, carbon dioxide or methane.
read moreGuest blog presented by: Jeremy Mattsson Fifth grade students at Cannon School (Concord, NC) partnered with Clean Air Carolina at the start of 2017 to gather data in support of a middle school service learning project. Through Cannon’s service learning program,...
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