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The state locked them up. Now they’re North Carolina’s elite firefighting force.
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Does North Carolina’s inmate firefighting program exploit prisoners, or give them a shot at a better life?
Criminal Justice
The fishkill on Georgia’s Ogeechee River
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When thousands of fish went belly-up on the Ogeechee River, investigations suggested that a riverside industrial plant was to blame. But the local outrage had less to do with the proximate cause and more to do with something bigger.
Environmental Justice
Part of the river: Anger and uncertainty after decades of drinking water contamination
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Hundreds of thousands have ingested GenX, a chemical polluting the Cape Fear River. John Wolfe, a mariner who knows and loves the river as much as anyone, reflects on what crisis reveals about our connections to nature, water, and one another.