…GenX before the summer of 2017. Five years have passed since we first learned that the lower Cape Fear River, the drinking water source for more than 300,000 people, was being contaminated by GenX and a host of other man-made chemical compounds called PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The…
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Health advisories for GenX, PFAS announced at conference
…GenX was created to replace PFOA, which was voluntarily phased out of production more than 10 years ago in the U.S. Health studies of animals that ingested GenX show health effects in the kidneys, blood, immune system, liver and developing fetuses, according to the EPA’s toxicity assessment. Studies on PFBS…
Newest GenX Lawsuit Attacks DuPont Science
…The lawsuit alleges the following: Publicly reported results of DuPont and Chemours studies on Gen X toxicity “contain misrepresentations and factual misstatements that tend to understate GenX’s potential for toxicity.” DuPont data show toxic effects in animals from short-term, subchronic and long-term exposure. GenX exposure to rats and mice prompted…
Budget Plan Funds Dredge, GenX Studies
…has been in place for decades. Initial debate was scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday and a final vote was expected Friday. Final Call on GenX Plans General Assembly leaders spent the week before the release rolling out chunks of the budget, with the GenX and other special provisions among the…
New GenX Bills Prompt Enforcement Worries
N.C. Legislative Building, Raleigh. RALEIGH – Compromise legislation emerged from a monthslong back and forth between the House and Senate Thursday, but legal experts say that rather than dealing with GenX contamination, the new law could make it more difficult to enforce environmental laws. Tandem bills were filed in the…
Republicans Question Cooper on GenX
RALEIGH — Republican senators in the North Carolina General Assembly, including several from coastal counties, are questioning Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent request for $2.6 million for water quality monitoring and health studies related to the presence of the little-understood GenX compound in the Cape Fear River and the Wilmington area’s…
GenX Unknowns Frustrate Folks at Forum
Attendees take their seats in Kenan Auditorium at UNCW for the GenX forum presented Wednesday. About 450 attended. Photo: Allison Ballard WILMINGTON – There were two common refrains at the GenX forum in Wilmington Wednesday night: that there are many unknowns about the effects the compound will have on human…
New Hanover, Brunswick residents needed for GenX study
…eligibility for the study and schedule a clinic appointment. PFAS, a group of over 5,000 human-made chemicals including GenX were found in drinking water in Wilmington in 2016. A chemical plant near Fayetteville has been releasing contaminants into the Cape Fear River since 1980. GenX, a product of the Chemours…
EPA releases final GenX human health toxicity assessment
The release Monday of the Environmental Protection Agency’s final human health toxicity assessment for GenX chemicals represents a key step in advancing the scientific understanding of these toxins and their effects on human health, officials said Monday. Across the country, including in southeastern North Carolina, GenX chemicals, part of the…
GenX Response: Activist Groups Unite Forces
A crowd of activists and protestors in Wilmington at a recent clean water rally hosted by Wilmington’s Stop GenX in Our Water. Photo: Allison Ballard Second in a two-part series. WILMINGTON – When the news broke in June that GenX and other chemicals had been detected in the Cape Fear…
SELC Looks to Stop GenX, Other Chemicals
…and its spinoff company Chemours have for close to four decades released GenX and other per- and poly-fluoroalkyl, or PFAS, compounds into North Carolina waters. In the past year, GenX has been found in at least 690 private drinking water wells up to 5.5 miles away from the Chemours’ facility….
New Data Show High GenX Concentrations
RALEIGH — Concentrations of GenX at Chemours’ wastewater discharge outfall in Fayetteville exceeded the state’s provisional drinking water health goal in late October and early November, according to preliminary water quality data the state Department of Environmental Quality received from the company this week, DEQ announced Wednesday. DEQ has alerted…