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After decades of pollution, Brunswick residents have a new resource for researching the link between area Superfund sites and their health. A five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health (NIH) has been awarded to Emory University to examine how environmental contaminants affect human health, following a 2023 pilot study involving approximately 100 Glynn County residents, according to the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
Glynn County will be the site of the first federally funded Superfund Research Center in Georgia, thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health that will fund projects from major state research universities.
Healthy Coastal Neighborhoods, a coalition of community members and researchers working to foster healthy neighborhoods, announced Wednesday morning that Emory University received $15 million over five years through the institute’s Superfund Research Program to study industrial contamination in the Golden Isles and its impacts on human and environmental health.
For decades, industrial pollutants were released into the environment of this small coastal Georgia community. Now, through a new 5-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences to Emory University, industrial contamination in Glynn County will be studied by scientists from five of Georgia’s leading research universities. The new research builds on a 2023 study, which found high levels of contaminants in the blood of Glynn County residents.
Two Coastal Empire environmental groups and a local woman filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, asking for the court to reverse a ruling made in a Sea Island wetland lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by Glynn Environmental Coalition, the Center for a Sustainable Coast and Jane Fraser, alleged that Sea Island Acquisition, LLC fraudulently obtained a permit to fill a wetland beside the Inn at Sea Island Company.
See the complete filed petition here.