With little discussion, the Wilmington City Council recently passed a resolution unanimously opposing a proposed expansion of Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant.
“Council urges the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other relevant regulatory bodies to deny any permits or approvals related to such expansion until Chemours has fully remediated existing contamination and demonstrated a sustained, transparent commitment to environmental and public health protections,” states the Nov. 3 resolution.
Fayetteville Works, located roughly 70 miles upstream from Wilmington near the Bladen-Cumberland county line, has been in the proverbial eye of the storm since the StarNews broke in 2017 that DuPont and more recently Chemours, which was spun off from DuPont in 2015, had been dumping “forever chemicals” into the Cape Fear River for decades. The manmade chemicals are used in common everyday products like food packaging, cookware, medical devices and adhesives…