Op-Ed: NC’s environmental disaster: weaker laws, reduced enforcement
Story Date: 12/6/2017

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/5/17

I send my kids to school not really knowing what is flowing from their water fountains. Five months ago, we learned that our Cape Fear River, which supplies Wilmington-area drinking water, has been the depository for a slew of likely toxic compounds – including a chemical coined GenX and others that the EPA is calling Nafion byproducts 1 and 2 – that were dumped into the river by a Chemours plant in Fayetteville for nearly 40 years.

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