Making a Difference

As someone that grew up very close to Love Canal, I saw from and early age the difference that journalism can make.

WRAL (Raleigh) is getting set to air a documentary that will explore the impact of toxic chemicals dumped into the Cape Fear River.

The level of contamination to hundreds of thousands of people was discovered five years ago. Yet even today, thousands of people are still forced to use the contaminated water.
 
WRAL Investigative Documentary Reporter Cristin Severance co-reported on this important topic with Liz McLaughlin, WRAL's reporter covering climate change impacts and environmental issues.
 
“We spent months traveling to the contaminated areas and talking with the people still living with contaminated water,” said WRAL Investigative Documentary Reporter Cristin Severance.
“It’s shocking that people are still fighting to get clean water in North Carolina in 2023.”

Documentaries like this take time and cost a station a lot of money. But, it shows that the station is committed to the community and is using its powerful voice in an effort to make a change.

Good for WRAL for committing the resources to the project. We can only hope that other stations will start doing the same.