Source: Adam Wagner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/10/19


A new study from N.C. State University has revealed that the levels of chemicals discharged by DuPont and Chemours into the Cape Fear River were significantly higher than previously believed and that the chemicals will not degrade in the natural environment. Using newly available information, N.C. State environmental engineer Detlef Knappe’s lab retested samples of Cape Fear River water from 2014 and 2015 for previously undetectable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) finding total concentrations ...

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