RALEIGH – A chairman has been named for the science panel expanded in July to advise the state secretaries of both the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health and Human services on the health effects of new and emerging environmental contaminants such as GenX and hexavalent chromium….
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Tension Mounts Between Chemours, DEQ
…polyfluoroalkyl ether sulfonic acids, or PFESAs, the chemicals are similar in several respects to GenX. The order also required Chemours to share proprietary information about its manufacturing practices, closely guarded secrets that state agencies needed to know what they are looking for and how to test for it. However, the…
EPA Fines Cargill for Stormwater Discharges
Amid concern over the compound GenX, another industrial operation in the Fayetteville area is in the spotlight for discharging pollutants into the Cape Fear River. Cargill Inc. operates an agricultural processing facility on Underwood Road in Fayetteville. Photo: Google The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that it is leveling a…
Chemical Found in Cape Fear Drinking Water
…state and federal standards. The chemical, called GenX, is a DuPont product used as a component in Teflon and has been linked to cancer and other ailments. It’s produced by the Chemours Co. at Fayetteville Works on the Cumberland-Bladen county line. The Environmental Protection Agency has no established standards for…
House OKs Limits On Firefighting Foam With PFAS
…been told that firefighters were exposed to more PFAS through training, practice and testing than in fighting actual fires. Davis, whose district was rocked by findings released in 2017 of widespread contamination of the Cape Fear River from a PFAS known by the trade name GenX, chaired a House select…
Science Board to hear update on EPA’s plan for PFAS
…as well as a summary of the GenX toxicity assessment. To speak during the meeting, register by 5 p.m. Dec. 3 using the registration form. The Secretaries’ Science Advisory Board includes 16 experts in toxicology, public health, ecology, engineering and other related fields. Their expertise assists the state departments of Environmental Quality…
Brunswick, New Hanover County chairs blast Chemours ads
…our mess, then go around the neighborhood bragging about how awesome a neighbor we are,” Olson-Boseman said in her statement. “Since the discovery of GenX and other emerging contaminants in our drinking water system became public in 2017, New Hanover County and the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority have pushed…
Flooding, Resilience on Legislators’ Agenda
…as perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS, hexavalent chromium and 1,-4-dioxane. House Bill 444 would require those found to be responsible for discharge of PFAS, including Chemours Co.’s product GenX, to a public water system to pay for the cost to “remove, correct, or abate any adverse effects”…
Still no answers from sampling of PFAS-laden foam
…$300,000 in civil penalties for exceeding its GenX air emissions limit. The company appealed the fine. DEQ’s Division of Water Resources is assessing the prevalence of PFAS in foam across the state, “and impacts from factors such as habitat, weather, and seasonal influences,” according to a division spokesperson. The U.S….
State Science Advisory Board to hear PFAS update
…called GenX and other emerging PFAS were found in drinking water sourced from the lower Cape Fear River in a study led by researchers at North Carolina State University. The Chemours facility in Fayetteville was identified as the source The meeting is to include an opportunity for public comment on…
Groups are setting traps to reduce plastics in NC waters
…bags outright. One of the easiest things a local government can do is require vendors it contracts with not use single-use plastics or products contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS — think GenX. “That’s a very easy, straightforward thing that local governments can do and it doesn’t require…
Chemours asks to build barrier wall to slow PFAS
…of PFAS at the Chemours facility, first brought to light in June 2017 after the state was informed that GenX was found in the Cape Fear River. it was determined that Chemours was the source of what are often called forever chemicals. The state in August 2020 ordered Chemours to…