"Forever Stained" [1]
"How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy"

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"How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy"

Two flourishing nonprofit programs teach young writers the basics of journalism and environmental reporting — mentoring and paying students, who publish enterprise and public records stories, personal essays and narrative features. Read more about Florida Student News Watch with CD Davidson-Hiers [15] and Indiana’s climate solutions-focused Youth Environmental Press Team with Jim Poyser [16], in the new EJ Academy.
"States gave Drax millions in tax breaks in the hopes of boosting jobs."
"South Carolina is battling the country’s largest measles outbreak since the disease was eliminated from the United States more than a quarter-century ago, with more than 840 cases overwhelmingly in unvaccinated children and adults."
"A bomb cyclone produced freezing temperatures across a large portion of the US from the Gulf coast to New England, bringing heavy snow to North Carolina where two were killed in storm-related conditions, and setting records in Florida, where officials warned of ice and falling iguanas."
"More than a year after the storm’s devastation, clean-energy microgrids are springing up in remote areas thanks to a program that could become a national model."
"The non-disclosure agreement was a major sticking point in a lively town hall that featured city officials, data center representatives and more than a hundred frustrated residents."
"After decades of PFAS contamination, North Carolina’s attorney general is challenging an EPA proposal to narrow reporting requirements for toxic 'forever chemicals.'"
"After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship."
"The Supreme Court on Monday morning grappled with a dispute in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana over whether oil and gas companies can move a lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for damage to the Louisiana coast to federal court."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[11] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[13] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[14] https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/saluda-river-sc-pfas-carpet-forever-chemicals/article_c228c494-5547-40aa-9beb-18e4aae21452.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/publications/ej-academy/helping-students-learn-hard-work-journalism
[16] https://www.sej.org/publications/helping-students-learn-hard-work-journalism#poyser
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/ej-academy
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[20] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[21] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
[22] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biomass-industry-promised-southern-towns-prosperity-they-are-still-dying
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology
[30] https://veritenews.org/2026/01/23/drax-air-pollution-louisiana-mississippi/
[31] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-south-carolina-s-soaring-measles-outbreak-means-rest-us
[32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[36] https://wapo.st/4k87mz8
[37] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bomb-cyclone-brings-freezing-temperatures-and-snow-millions-us
[38] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/bomb-cyclone-snow-cold-weather-storm-us
[39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/after-helene-rural-north-carolina-turns-solar-and-battery-hubs
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure
[41] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/rural-north-carolina-solar-battery-hubs
[42] https://www.sej.org/headlines/alabama-mayor-signed-nda-data-center-developer-read-it-here
[43] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[44] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17012026/an-alabama-mayor-signed-an-nda-with-a-data-center-developer-read-it-here/
[45] https://www.sej.org/headlines/north-carolina-pushes-back-epa-moves-scale-back-pfas-reporting
[46] https://www.wral.com/news/state/north-carolina-challenges-epa-pfas-reporting-january-2026/
[47] https://www.sej.org/headlines/miccosukee-blocked-alligator-alcatraz-then-trump-blocked-land-return-bill
[48] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[49] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/religion-faith-and-spirituality
[50] https://grist.org/indigenous/the-miccosukee-tribe-blocked-alligator-alcatraz-then-trump-blocked-a-bill-to-return-their-land/
[51] https://www.sej.org/headlines/high-court-hears-arguments-suit-over-damage-louisiana-coast
[52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1
[53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/fisheries
[54] https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/court-hears-arguments-in-suit-attempting-to-find-companies-responsible-for-damage-to-louisiana-coast/
[55] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=2
[56] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=1
[57] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=4
[58] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=5
[59] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=6
[60] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=7
[61] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=8
[62] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast?page=212