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Halimah Abdullah
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E-mail Halimah Abdullah at habdullah@mcclatchydc.com
Halimah Abdullah covers Washington for The Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky., the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus, Ga., and the Macon Telegraph in Macon, Ga.
She previously was a political reporter-editor for the Memphis Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and covered regional politics for the paper. Previous papers include Newsday in Long Island, NY and the Dallas Morning News in Dallas, TX. She's won awards for enterprise, education and features reporting and received artist-in-residence appointments to several writing colonies. She has taught at Brooklyn College and John Jay College in New York.
A graduate of the University of Alabama, she holds a master's degree from the City University of New York's Brooklyn College.
Halimah Abdullah's Latest Story
Boxer: EPA should regulate coal-fired power plant waste
By Halimah Abdullah and Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers
The EPA decided in 2000, in the Clinton administration, not to regulate coal ash as a hazardous waste. The collapse of a coal ash storage dam in Tennessee last month, however, has brought new attention to the potential consequences. » read more
Posted on Thu, January 8, 2009
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