…is also pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to provide regulatory guidance on GenX. Additionally, DEQ staff are pushing Chemours officials to limit the amount of GenX making its way into the river. A Chemours official told state environmental regulators this week that the company is working to assess waste streams…
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State Initiates Lawsuit Against Chemours
…for the presence of GenX and other fluorinated compounds. The state’s investigation and pressure from citizens and officials prompted Chemours to stop discharging GenX into the Cape Fear in June. Since the GenX discharge stopped, concentrations of GenX have dropped below the health goal of 140 parts per trillion. Last…
GOP Blasts Cooper’s Veto of House Bill 56
…of GenX groundwater contamination near Fayetteville underline that the problem is not just in Wilmington. Related: DEQ Demands GenX Data “The legislation passed by the General Assembly, House Bill 56, provides no resources to the state agencies charged with protecting drinking water and preventing illegal chemicals from being discharged into…
Brunswick County Files Lawsuit Over GenX
…crucial step in protecting the public drinking water supply, according to the county’s announcement. “It sends a clear message that Brunswick County will simply not stand for the discharge of emerging or unregulated chemicals into our public drinking water supply.” Learn More GenX & Brunswick County Public Utilities Drinking Water…
Five Research Teams Seek Answers on PFAS
…of the presence of these chemicals in the Cape Fear River was made public, GenX and other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have become household names. GenX chemical structure The discovery of these chemicals in the Cape Fear River, the drinking water source for tens of thousands in the…
Chemours’ ‘Fix-It Man’ Faces Daunting Task
A crew, left, prepares to unload a basket of spent granular activated carbon lifted by crane from an adsorption unit, the rectangular gray structure at right on which the man in the white suit is standing. Chemours installed the adsorption unit earlier this year to reduce air emissions of GenX…
DEQ Files Injunction Against Chemours
…permit GenX air emissions. The Division of Air Quality estimates Chemours’ annual GenX emissions to be more than 2,700 pounds, or around 40 times higher than originally reported in early 2017 and four times higher than their revised estimate submitted to the division in October 2017. Learn More GenX Investigation…
Other Compounds ID’d in Chemours’ Waste
…concentrations of these three perfluorinated compounds dropped significantly, similar to GenX levels after the company stopped discharging GenX. For that reason, state and federal officials believe the three perfluorinated compounds were part of the same wastewater discharge that included GenX and was stopped. DEQ is now asking Chemours to stop…
State Requires Chemours to Prove Control
…date. Friday’s action is in response to DAQ specialists reviewing test results showing concentrations of GenX compounds in rainwater collected near the Chemours facility and air emissions measurements from stacks at the site, according to the press release. DAQ tested rainwater for GenX compounds during rain events Feb. 28-March 2…
Brunswick Seeks EPA Loan for H2O Upgrades
…to light in June 2017, following media reports that researchers had discovered GenX and a host of similar substances emanating from the Chemours chemical plant on the Bladen-Cumberland county line near Fayetteville. Chemours officials said the GenX in the river was a byproduct of a manufacturing process that had been…
Exposure study evolves to measure PFAS’ long-term effects
…and PFOS, fluoroethers such as GenX, and lipids. GenX was ultimately not detected because the chemical has been found to last in blood for about three days. Moving forward, Hoppin said, researchers overseeing the health study will collect new blood samples to look at various markers, including how PFAS may…
Analysis: Environmental Bills Shaped In Secret
…million in additional funding for GenX-related testing, monitoring and public outreach. In her email Tuesday, Wade did not say when the next commission meeting would be held, but noted that the commission assisted in the development of the GenX provisions in House Bill 56, including $435,000 in funding for the…