Source: Colin Campbell, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/24/18


When Senate leader Phil Berger blasted the House’s GenX funding bill this month, he said it “authorizes the purchase of expensive equipment that the state can already access for free.” The equipment is a $500,000 tool called a high-resolution mass spectrometer that the Department of Environmental Quality wants to study GenX and other potential contaminants in drinking water. House Bill 189 includes $2.3 million for DEQ to buy the equipment and hire and train five new scientists to use it; it ...

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