By Sarah Padyk  A proud double Tar Heel in the making, Sarah Padyk is a master’s student at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, studying strategic communication. She graduated with distinction in May of 2022 with … Read more

By Ameena Hester Ameena Hester is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Public Policy with minors in Environmental Justice and Data Science.  She is a National Institute Environmental Health Sciences Connect Scholar and an Environmental Policy Intern with the … Read more

By Connor LaMontagne Connor LaMontagne is a PhD student  in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Hurricane Florence and Water Quality Impacts Imagine evacuating your home to escape … Read more

By Steve Wall Steve Wall is a policy research associate with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory. In the summer of 2016 the North Carolina General Assembly established and funded the North Carolina Policy … Read more