Source: Adam Wagner, WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 6/14/18

During the year since GenX first broke into the public’s consciousness, Wilmington-area residents have pushed back against air emissions permits and also questioned the area’s development, a heightened level of concern many in the environmental community trace back to awareness of the toxic chemical. “If you think about National Gypsum and the two methyl bromide operations, those permits would have likely slipped right through without anyone noticing if it wasn’t for this general uproar people are in about their air and about their water,” said Erin Carey, the coastal conservation programs coordinator for the Sierra Club’s North Carolina chapter.

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