North Carolina's Senate Select Committee held a meeting Tuesday afternoon regarding river water quality in our state, specifically GenX and what is being done to understand the compound and it's impact on the Cape Fear River.
The quality of our water here in the Cape Fear took center stage in Raleigh today.
Today, Gov. Cooper will veto House Bill 56, An Act to Amend Various Environmental Laws.
The full extent of the potential environmental impacts of GenX and other emerging contaminants produced by Chemours is something state regulators are trying to grasp.
The actions taken by Republican leaders are being called partisan by several special interest groups.
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that allows local officials to being improving water quality in the Cape fear River while helping ensure the state DEQ enforces the law against the company that dumped GenX into the water supply.
The NC Department of Environmental Quality says the EPA identified two additional chemical compounds in the Cape Fear River.
Gov. Roy Cooper will spend much of his day in southeastern North Carolina.
GenX is one of the big topics that came up this morning when WWAY's Hannah Patrick sat down with Congressman David Rouzer about several important issues in the Cape Fear and across the country.
Concentrations of GenX in finished drinking water along the Cape Fear River remain well below the state’s health goal, according to the latest test results released today.
GenX has been the big story all summer and it's getting attention from state lawmakers. The State Environmental Review Commission met in Wilmington to discuss its investigation into GenX.
The Environmental Review Commission will meet in Wilmington on Wednesday to investigate the discharge of GenX into the Cape Fear River.
Starting as early as today, customers will find a letter on GenX from CFPUA Chairman Mike Brown and Executive Director Jim Flechtner in their next bill.
Brockovich also wanted to inform the public of how hard the fight can be but they must stay vigilant during this time.
Conversations about GenX continued this morning with water activist Erin Brockovich and other local officials.
North Carolina Senate Republicans are planning a public hearing about the discharge of GenX into the Cape Fear River because they say Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's administration didn't answer most of their questions.
This afternoon, CFPUA received new results from the raw and finished water at Sweeney Water Treatment Plant taken on August 1.
Several North Carolina legislators want more information from Gov. Roy Cooper to justify his funding request for responding to chemical releases into a river and future water safety issues.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality released new test results Wednesday that show concentrations of the chemical GenX continue to be below the state’s health goal at all finished water sampling sites on the Cape Fear River downstream of the Chemours industrial facility.
A group of Republican state senators today responded to a request from the Cooper administration for more money for two state agencies in the wake of the GenX investigation.
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority plans to remove millions of gallons of treated drinking water from an aquifer where it's been stored.
The leaders of a pair of state agencies have sent a letter to legislators outlining their requests for more funding in the wake of the GenX investigation in southeastern North Carolina.
Concentrations of GenX in finished drinking water from the Cape Fear River continue to be below the state’s public health goal, according to the latest test results released by the NC Department of Environmental Quality.
Governor Roy Cooper has expanded a state science panel to help guide state officials on ways to better protect public health and the environment from new or unregulated chemicals, something he mentioned he would do during his visit to Wilmington on July 24.