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ON LOCATION: Hometown pollution shaped the next EPA chief


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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