Emily Cureton Cook
Emily Cureton Cook

Emily Cureton Cook

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Emily Cureton Cook is OPB’s Central Oregon bureau chief. Her reporting seeks to hold powerful people to account, promote honesty and transparency in public affairs, and amplify voices of rural Oregon. She formerly contributed award-winning programming to Georgia Public Broadcasting and Jefferson Public Radio, and reporting to community newspapers like the Del Norte Triplicate in Crescent City, California, and the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas.

Emily graduated from the University of Texas in Austin. Send her feedback and story ideas at ecureton@opb.org.

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Reports of groundwater pollution in Oregon surface in a US Senate hearing

At a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senators pointed to Eastern Oregon, where more than 4,000 wells are at risk from decades of nitrate pollution, and to Central Oregon, where dozens of people blame a gravel mine for sudden plumbing disasters and health concerns.


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