Big plan to clean our air moves forward even as controversy lingers

September 17, 2015 Caroline Eggers

Last month, President Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Clean Power Plan, the first federal plan to reduce carbon pollution. The initiative targets power plants and electricity — which account for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions — with individual state plans. These customized goals, to be met by 2030, reflect…

Unusual dental clinic is a boon for the developmentally disabled

July 21, 2015 Caroline Eggers

Recently, outside a dental clinic in Atlanta, two men in lavender-colored scrubs could be seen escorting a woman in a wheelchair to a car. To a passer-by, that might have looked like an unusual level of service to be given a dental patient. But this is not a typical dentist’s practice. It’s the Georgia office…