On today’s show, we’re talking about the long, perilous story of GenX in the Cape Fear River.
Eight years ago, Cape Fear residents realized they were being slowly poisoned by a Chemours manufacturing plant upriver in Fayetteville. The GenX crisis has defined the lives of many advocates, reporters, and politicians in the time since.
There’s a lot to tell in this story: from discovering the contamination, filtering out contaminants, and the ongoing political fight for protection for more than 1 million people impacted within the watershed…