Read the full article by Lisa Sorg (Inside Climate News)
“FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.— North Carolina environmental regulators this week sent a scathing critique to Chemours, which is responsible for contaminating at least 10 counties with toxic ‘forever chemicals,’ arguing that the company’s cleanup proposal violates the terms of a consent order.
The state Department of Environmental Quality detailed multiple inadequacies in the company’s plan to remediate widespread, decades-old groundwater and soil contamination from PFAS chemicals in southeastern North Carolina.
‘Today’s direction to the company makes clear that DEQ expects Chemours to clean up all the areas they have polluted,’ said DEQ Secretary Reid Wilson in a prepared statement. ‘DEQ will hold Chemours accountable no matter how long it takes.’
The company’s predecessor, DuPont, is responsible for some of the contamination emanating from the Fayetteville Works plant, but it shielded itself from liability when it spun off Chemours in 2015. An international company, Chemours manufactures chemicals used to make Teflon cookware, data center coolants and grease-, water- and stain-resistant consumer products.”…