Read the full article by Gareth McGrath (Wilmington StarNews).
“Nearly nine years after the StarNews first reported that DuPont and now Chemours had been dumping unknown manmade chemicals into the Cape Fear River that couldn’t be filtered out before entering public water systems, important steps have been taken to learn more about the health risk posed by the toxic contaminants and the extent of the contamination nationwide.
Since 2017, state officials also have largely succeeded in stopping Chemours from dumping any new PFAS (short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) into the river. But work on cleaning up the legacy contamination and the cost to local governments and utilities of dealing with these ‘forever chemicals’ remains an ongoing project, as do rules and regulations to force companies to disclose what exactly they are producing and in what amounts.
With new federal and state rules and requirements over PFAS slowly moving forward, here’s an update on where they stand, and why many environmentalists, clean water activists and even government officials don’t think they go far enough.”…