The GenX Exposure Study team has planned a webinar and multiple in-person community meetings on recently released blood per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, results. The GenX Exposure Study is measuring GenX and other PFAS exposure in people living near the Cape Fear River Basin, the drinking water source for numerous…
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EPA rule would require water providers to monitor for PFAS
…people. Among the chemical compounds released into the river, ground and air from the plant some 75 miles upriver from Wilmington, is GenX, the common name for hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid, or HFPO-DA. GenX is one of four chemical compounds the EPA is proposing to limit in combination with perfluoronanoic…
State on ‘aggressive’ timeline to meet PFAS water standards
…GenX into the state this year and none are en route, according to the EPA. In a statement to Coastal Review, a Chemours spokesperson last month explained that the plant recycles GenX to reuse it in manufacturing processes “for use in applications like semiconductor and electric vehicle production.” “Reclaiming and…
EPA puts enforceable limits on PFAS in public water systems
…One of the EPA’s now regulated individual chemical compounds known commercially as GenX has been discharged specifically from the Chemours plant in Bladen County. Shortly after the EPA in June 2022 revised the GenX health level advisory to 10 parts per trillion, Chemours sued, arguing the agency failed to use…
AG Sues DuPont, Chemours Over PFAS
…Court Approves GenX Cleanup Addendum This lawsuit follows the state court’s approval Monday of an addendum to the 2019 consent order under which Chemours is permitted to discharge pollutants. The addendum requires Chemours’ Fayetteville Works facility to stop 99% of GenX and other PFAS from entering the Cape Fear River….
Chemours’ Air Emission Facility Now in Use
…on the presence of the GenX compound in the Cape Fear River. The Chemours’ Fayetteville Works was identified as the company that produces the GenX chemical for industrial processes, according to DEQ. DEQ entered into a Consent Order with the company and Cape Fear River Watch February 2019. The order…
Forum to Spotlight PFAS Scientists, Research
…PFAS sources, where PFAS end up in the environment and potential health effects of PFAS exposure. “We’re excited to be co-hosting this forum with the PFAST Network and UNCW. With so much still unknown about GenX and other PFAS, we hope this event will help inform local residents about the…
Vaughn Hagerty Accepts CFPUA Position
WILMINGTON – The reporter who first broke the news of GenX and similar compounds in the region’s drinking water supply has taken a position with the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority as its public information officer. Vaughn Hagerty Vaughn Hagerty, a freelance reporter for Coastal Review Online for much of 2018…
Public Calls for Stronger EPA Action on PFAS
…of measuring PFAS compounds in the air. Peter Grevatt, director of the EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, said agency officials are working on how to address GenX and similar compounds and working with state officials to develop a toxicity value for GenX. They are also thinking about…
Lower Cape Fear Focus of Restoration Effort
…presence of GenX was discovered in the river basin just last year. That discovery has launched research efforts to identify everything from the chemical’s presence in the ground and air, to its possible effects on humans and ways to identify other perfluorinated compounds. The GenX issue is heightening awareness about…
Cooper Promises Lawsuit Over Exemption
…fight, and we will take our voices to the polls!” GenX Contamination Cooper, during his remarks, also addressed the issue of GenX and other emerging compounds discovered last year in the Wilmington area’s drinking water, which is drawn from the Cape Fear River. Cooper said families deserve clean drinking water,…
Water Issues Are Sheinbaum’s Life Calling
…water in Flint, Michigan, and the discovery close to home this year of GenX, a chemical manufactured by Chemours, an offshoot of DuPont, in the water supply in Wilmington, the largest city in New Hanover County, just across the bridge from Wrightsville Beach. Chemours has been commercially manufacturing GenX since…