Published: Friday, January 22, 2021
Michael Regan. Photo credit: CNP/Polaris/Newscom
Michael Regan. CNP/Polaris/Newscom
GOLDSBORO, N.C. It s 6 miles as the crow flies from the childhood home of Michael Regan to the shuttered coal plant that helped light up this city of 35,000 people.
During the 1980s, the plant s three coal-fired generators were industrial monoliths on the edge of town, pulsing out nearly 400 megawatts of electric power to Wayne County and east-central North Carolina.
It was also when Regan, the first Black man nominated to lead EPA, had his first asthma attacks, a condition triggered by heat, allergens and air pollution.
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A million gallons of gasoline has split from a pipeline onto a nature reserve in North Carolina. It is actually 4 times the size that was initially reported, as stated via a report filed to the state.
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What happens to North Carolina
As reported by the Charlotte Observer on Thursday, in September, the then-secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Michael Regan, stated that up to 1.033 million liters (273,000 gallons) of gasoline was spilled in Mecklenburg County s Oehler Nature Preserve situated near Huntersville.
Huntersville is about 24 kilometers (15 miles) north of Charlotte. In the previous month, specifically in August, the same county reported up to 238,455 liters (63,000 gallons)
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Inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris / Kevin Dietsch, CNP/Polaris, Europa Press via AP News
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