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Update: On November 16, the Wall Street Journal reported that Frank Gaffney joined Donald Trump’s transition team to advise the president-elect on national security issues. Trump transition officials denied the report. The New York Times reported that the transition team is relying on Gaffney’s “advice,” but stopped short of claiming he was on the team. Journalist Eli Lake later tweeted that Gaffney said he had not been contacted by Trump, but that “I look forward to helping President-elect & the national security-minded team he is assembling in whatever way I can.”

Update: In May, NRA members voted to reject the effort to recall Grover Norquist from the NRA board, with 70,204 noReducing GI Illnesses by Extending Municipal Water Service to Private Well Owners

Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Ph.D University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill T32ES007018

NIEHS-funded researchers provided new evidence that extending regulated community water service to households currently relying on private wells may decrease the burden of acute gastrointestinal (GI) illness. By combining data on visits to the emergency department for acute GI illness with water quality data, the researchers linked microbial contamination of drinking water from private wells to cases of acute GI illness in North Carolina.

The researchers used 2007-2013 data from North Carolina emergency departments, along with data from community water systems and more than 16,000 water samples from private wells in North Carolina. Approximately 35 percent of the population of North Carolina depends on private wells. The