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The Health Impacts of Environmental Policy

The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Act

Julia Kravchenko, H. Kim Lyerly and William Ross
North Carolina Medical Journal September 2018, 79 (5) 329-333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.79.5.329
Julia Kravchenko
assistant professor, Environmental Health Scholars Program, Division of Surgical Sciences, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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  • For correspondence: julia.krauchanka@duke.edu
H. Kim Lyerly
director, Environmental Health Scholars Program; George Barth Geller Professor of Cancer Research; professor, Departments of Surgery, Immunology, and Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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William Ross
partner, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, Raleigh, North Carolina
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