After years of concern over PFAS-contaminated water, North Carolinians are being asked to weigh in on a proposed federal settlement that state officials say does not do enough to protect them.
At the center of the dispute is an agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and Chemours that could help determine how — or even whether — affected communities receive meaningful cleanup support.
What’s happening?
Jeff Jackson, North Carolina’s attorney general, is encouraging residents to file public comments on an EPA-Chemours agreement he has described as a “backroom PFAS deal,” according to NC Newsline.
In 2017, scientists said GenX and other PFAS, often called “forever chemicals” because they persist in the environment, were being released from a plant near Fayetteville on the Cape Fear River…