WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – State environmental officials held a public hearing in Wilmington on Thursday for the proposed rules to monitor and reduce PFAS chemicals in North Carolina’s waterways.
The meeting at the Wilmington Skyline Center drew such a large crowd that the fire marshal declared the venue at capacity and had to turn people away, citing safety concerns.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) hearing focused on rules that would require industrial facilities to measure PFOS, PFOA and GenX in their wastewater discharges and develop plans to minimize those chemicals entering rivers, lakes and streams…