Read the full article by Will Atwater (North Carolina Health News)
“Undeterred by the sweltering heat on the grassy mall behind the legislative building in Raleigh on July 10, Democracy Green’s co-founder and executive director Sanja Whittington stepped to a microphone and delivered an impassioned plea.
‘We are calling upon the Environmental Management Commission to vote yes to removing PFAS from our drinking water sources today,’ Whittington said. ‘Our bodies weren’t created to consume and digest toxic cancer-causing chemicals such as PFAs and other emerging contaminants.’
Democracy Green, an environmental advocacy group, organized the news conference, which was livestreamed on the group’s Facebook channel one hour before the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission’s Groundwater and Wastewater Committee meeting.
Nearly 30 people, including community residents and local officials, endured 95 degree heat to support the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s recommendation to establish surface and groundwater standards for eight PFAS.”…