…measures to deal with GenX evolved in legislative negotiations. Before incorporating the GenX-related measures into the final budget-adjustment bill, lawmakers agreed to changes urged by the North Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, WRAL.com reported. The alliance is a lobbying group of more than 50 companies, including GenX manufacturer Chemours. It requested the…
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Limited GenX Data, Public Messaging At Issue
…emerging classes of contaminants such as GenX, the board has faced the same dual challenge that has perplexed policymakers in the administration and the legislature. There are the immediate issues of Chemours’ responsibility and the ongoing discoveries of GenX contamination, which have received much media attention, but there’s also the…
Deadline Here for GenX Emissions Cut
…order. Questions submitted on Wednesday for this report went unanswered. The proposed court order centers on the role Chemours’ air emissions play in fluorochemical contamination of groundwater, including about 160 private wells where tests have shown GenX at levels exceeding the state’s 140-parts-per-trillion provisional health goal. GenX and other fluorochemicals…
GenX Pollution: What Happened? And When?
…other ailments, said East Carolina University toxicologist Jamie DeWitt, who has studied GenX. Chemours for years has heralded GenX as an improved substitute for PFOA and similar substances due to differences in its chemical structures which it was anticipated would make it less persistent in the environment, thus reducing any…
DEQ Reviews GenX Timeline with CRC
…and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, she said. The scientists discovered GenX along with several other perfluorinated compounds in the Cape Fear River. After the news broke June 7, 2017, Holman said that Chemours on June 21, 2017, agreed to stop discharges from their process wastewater, which contained GenX….
New Questions As GenX Debate Continues
…plan with the cost of implementing a strategy on emerging contaminants adding an extra layer complication. GenX Levels Spike; Lawsuit Announced Thursday, during a community meeting in Bladen County near the Chemours plant that produces GenX and other compounds, DEQ officials detailed another significant increase in GenX levels in the…
2018 Dominated by GenX, Florence, Election
…GenX bill that would have included additional funding for DEQ. New test results shows spikes in GenX levels after heavy rains in December 2017. In public hearings, DEQ officials detailed testing of air emissions and private drinking wells near the Bladen County plant. A legislative study that looked at ways…
What Will GenX Health Studies Reveal?
…say whether those chemicals showed up in people’s blood. Tests on urine await development of analytical tools. Jane Hoppin “I think this is the first GenX study (on humans) because no one was thinking about GenX until last year,” said Hoppin, deputy director of the Center for Human Health and…
Biologist on GenX Health Effects: ‘It’s Toxic’
…consent, without our prior knowledge.” GenX is the commonly used term for perfluoro-2-propoxypropanoic acid, a chemical compound produced to make Teflon, which is used to make nonstick coating surfaces for cookware. Chemours has been discharging GenX into the Cape Fear since the 1980s. GenX, like other perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds,…
Funds to Address GenX OK’d After Bitter Fight
…the Cape Fear River was that the current treatment process is unable to remove GenX. Levels found in the river were close to those found in the treated water, the study found. Although state regulators were able to get Chemours, the Dupont spinoff responsible for GenX, to stop discharging the…
GenX Science Panel Shares Research Plans
…In her lab, they’ve been testing the effects of GenX compared to PFOA, or C8, for which GenX was meant to replace. They found that GenX, when orally exposed, is toxic for rodents but less toxic for these measures than PFOA. “The data implies that GenX leaves the body sooner…
GenX In Homes: 300 Join Health Effects Study
…out a report detailing test results of water from her home, one of 198 sampled as part of the first study on the human health effects of GenX and related substances recently found in New Hanover County’s drinking water. She turned to a graph showing the distribution of GenX levels…
