CFPUA reacts to new report suggested adverse health effects of compounds like GenX
The report was released as a draft for public comment from the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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Research finds GenX in one type of young fish, not others
A little-studied industrial compound is in a lake near the North Carolina chemical plant where it's manufactured, but a state environmental study isn't finding much in the young fish living there.
Panel discusses GenX one year later
A year ago the people of the Cape Fear were exposed to the truth many had feared in a long time. The water out of the Cape Fear River was, and is, contaminated.
One year after GenX revelation, some fears still remain
Nearly a year after the story about GenX broke, some fears have been calmed, while others still remain.
Blueprint designed to protect lower Cape Fear River
The North Carolina Coastal Federation and its partners introduced a blueprint Tuesday to protect the lower Cape Fear River moving forward.
GenX remains in focus nearly one year later, multiple bills filed
It's been almost a year since we learned about GenX in the Cape Fear River.
Republicans agree on how to address little-known chemicals
North Carolina legislative Republicans say they've worked out an agreement to expand work and funding to clean up, contain and evaluate unregulated industrial chemicals like the one a plant dumped for decades into the Cape Fear River.
CFPUA looks at adding $46M filtration system on your dime, at first
GenX and Fluoride are both major concerns when it comes to water in the area.
Water exec: Uncertain mix of chemicals from consumer taps
A public water utility that studied what it was serving its 200,000 North Carolina customers is finding a soup of unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects/
UNCW researchers discuss findings on GenX after submitting report
Discussing the latest findings about the many unknowns of GenX, that's what several UNCW researchers did Wednesday afternoon just days after they delivered their final report to state lawmakers.
UNCW submits GenX report to Environmental Review Commission
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington have delivered their final report on GenX to the NC House of Representatives, which reveals several new poly-fluoroalkyl chemical compounds were identified at the Sweeney Water Treatment Facility.
DEQ secretary makes case for additional GenX funding
Regulators will likely make public within a week the first batch of air monitoring results from Chemours’ Fayetteville Works emissions, a N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) official told legislators on Thursday.
Tests show GenX found in more North Carolina wells
A county health director in North Carolina says nearly all the wells tested in his county had a chemical compound that might cause cancer.
Regulators: Proof GenX carried in wind, falls in rain
North Carolina environmental regulators say they now have proof GenX is carried aloft by winds and falls to earth in rainwater miles from the chemical plant where it's made.
GenX found in rainwater on UNCW campus
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has issued six violation notifications to Chemours in the past several months.
Legislature adjourns as no compromise made to fund research on GenX
Two bills passed to deal with researching GenX. They both differ on who will do the research. One lawmaker says the Senate has made an effort to negotiate.
Chemical that soiled North Carolina water found in West Virginia
The little-studied compound that was found in a North Carolina river last year has also been found in a well under a West Virginia Chemours facility.
Neighbors frustrated fire off at Bladen County GenX forum
New test results are coming from what experts say. None of them talk about the affects of GenX though. That left many neighbors still concerned as they grow tired of having to live with the faucets turned off.
Judge streamlining federal lawsuits over tainted river
A federal judge wants to streamline lawsuits blaming two companies for releasing a little-understood compound from a North Carolina chemical plant into waters used by hundreds of thousands of people.
GenX dominates the news in 2017
On June 7th, the Starnews broke the story about GenX in the Cape Fear River. As the region learned about this compound from the Chemours chemical plant near Fayetteville in the drinking water supply, citizens wanted answers.
State to test drinking supplies for chemicals emerging as risks
North Carolina environmental regulators will start testing the state's major supplies of drinking water to learn whether people are ingesting industrial chemicals whose health effects are poorly understood, a state official said Friday.
CFPUA: Costs of GenX treatment surpass $1 million
CFPUA says these costs do not include the staff time spent on GenX related activities.
Elevated levels of GenX found in 30 more private wells
The state has ordered Chemours to provide bottled water to 30 more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after the latest results from the company’s expanded private well sampling showed concentrations of GenX above the state’s provisional health goal.
Battle for H2Go: How we got here
As the battle over the future of H2Go and its plans for a reverse osmosis plant go to court, we break down what's happened over the last several years to get here.