This story also appeared in Columbia Journalism Investigations In October 2018, three weeks after Hurricane Florence pummeled swaths of North Carolina, Eddie Clinton was in the kitchen of his Louisburg home. The retired schoolteacher opened a cooler full of shrimp from an acquaintance who went on a fishing expedition 130 miles south in a river […]

Author Archives: Sammy Fretwell
Sammy Fretwell is a senior environmental reporter at The State and McClatchy newspapers in North and South Carolina.