Source: Emery P. Dalesio, BLUERIDGE NOW, 12/23/17


North Carolina environmental regulators will start testing the state’s major supplies of drinking water to learn whether people are ingesting industrial chemicals whose health effects are poorly understood, a state official said Friday. Monitoring could start next month for nearly two dozen unregulated chemicals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies as “emerging contaminants” needing more study, State Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Jamie Kritzer said.

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