NC Healthy Communities  


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BREDL NC Healthy Communities Campaign

Our NC Healthy Communities campaign concentrated on biosolids (sewage sludge), especially being applied on farm land, and dry cleaning solvents cleanup.


The League comments on NC Draft Rule for Revision
of the Arsenic Acceptable Ambient Level

June 13, 2013: Upon review of Division of Air Quality files, it is clear that public health was not the driving force behind the changes.

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BREDL In the NEWS: Fracking North Carolina:
What Do We Do With The Waste?

April 23, 2013: BREDL's Therese Vick was recently interviewed for a WUNC 91.5 NC Public Radio story.

“You can model anything the way you want to,” she says. “And who’s watching? Who’s monitoring it? Is the testing gonna ever be adequate? Are they ever going to be required to test for every substance?”

Check out the WUNC story for more of Therese's comments

League joins in the call for a comprehensive health assessment prior to fracking

April 17, 2013: Raleigh- Today, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) joined over 90 medical professionals and 25 organizations calling on the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor Pat McCrory to require that a health assessment be conducted before any fracking is allowed in North Carolina. A letter requesting the health assessment will be sent to Legislators and the Governor. At the press conference, health care providers spoke of the necessity of the health assessment and others held signs saying, “First Do No Harm,” and “An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure”.

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