North Carolina has played an outsized role in the United States’ forever chemical water contamination crisis, with much of that attention focused on chemical company Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant.
Company officials have admitted that the plant discharged forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River for decades, largely under DuPont before it spun Chemours off amid mounting legal liabilities. Those discharges polluted the primary drinking water source for Wilmington and its surrounding area, while air emissions carrying PFAS polluted groundwater around the plant.
Now, Chemours is weighing in on North Carolina’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, with its corporate political action committee contributing $5,000 to GOP candidate Michael Whatley’s campaign. The Delaware-based company has also donated $6,500 to five GOP state legislators over the course of this biennium, according to federal campaign finance data…