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EPA to formally regulate PFAS in drinking water for the first time
The EPA has established the first-ever federal regulations for six types of toxic PFAS in drinking water, including GenX, which has polluted the drinking water supplies for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians in the Lower Cape Fear River Basin. “This is the most significant action on PFAS the EPA has ever taken,” said Administrator […]
Chemours places three top officials on leave, citing “material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting”
Chemours has placed its CEO, chief financial officer and controller on administrative leave over financial reporting issues, prompting an internal review by the Audit Committee of the company’s Board of Directors and an independent law firm. The company announced the change in a press release issued this morning. The 2023 year-end and fourth quarter financial […]
Weekend reads: A crisis of confidence, heated politics, making a mockery of campaign finance laws
Across the UNC System, campuses face a crisis of confidence By Joe Killian At N.C. State and UNCG, recent faculty votes reflect cultural, philosophical and political tensions When members of N.C. State University’s College of Education faculty voted to express “no confidence” in the university’s chancellor and provost last weekend, it was a first in […]
Chemours asks federal appeals court to negate EPA health goal for GenX
Chemours, the company responsible for polluting the drinking water of 800,000 people in the Lower Cape Fear River Basin with GenX, is asking a court to negate the EPA’s health advisory for the toxic chemical. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia, heard arguments last week. There is not a timetable for a […]
From PFAS to pipelines, investigative reporter Lisa Sorg discusses NC’s top environmental stories
2023 was yet another big year for stories related to the environment – and, in particular, the seemingly countless ways in which human well-being was (and continues to be) endangered by pollution. Here in North Carolina, NC Newsline environmental investigative reporter Lisa Sorg filed scores of stories documenting this hard reality, and recently, she sat […]
North Carolina’s environment: The year that was and the year to come
Six years ago we couldn’t even pronounce perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Now the terms roll off our tongues like rain off a PFAS-treated Goretex jacket. The Chemours Fayetteville Works plant in northern Bladen County is responsible for forever contaminating the drinking water supplies of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians with GenX and other PFAS. […]
DEQ requiring Chemours to expand well sampling to 14,000 homes for PFAS
More than 14,100 homes could qualify for private well sampling for PFAS contamination, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality announced today. DEQ is requiring Chemours, which is responsible for the contamination, to expand the testing area to additional homes in New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, and Pender counties. These areas have borne the brunt of PFAS […]
EPA withdraws consent for Chemours to export GenX from Netherlands to Fayetteville
This is a developing story and will be updated. The EPA has withdrawn its conditional consent for Chemours to export wastewater shipments containing GenX from its Dordrecht Works facility in the Netherlands to its Fayetteville, N.C., facility, the agency announced Wednesday afternoon. In its application to the EPA, Chemours had overstated the amount of imported […]
UN panel alleges Chemours is violating human rights of North Carolinians with toxic PFAS
DuPont and two of its spinoff companies, Chemours and Corteva, allegedly violated the human rights of hundreds of thousands of people living in the Lower Cape Fear River Basin, routinely discharging toxic PFAS into the region’s drinking water supplies, a United Nations panel announced this past weekend. “DuPont and Chemours facilities have significantly contributed to […]