WILMINGTON, N.C. — Five years after the state’s initial investigation of GenX turning up in the Cape Fear River, Gov. Chemours said in 2017 that it would stop discharging the chemical into the Cape Fear River, the drinking water sources for several hundred thousand people in southeastern North Carolina, including Wilmington. “We are all working toward a common goal -- …
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina state regulators would set maximum acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” — like those discharged for decades into the Cape Fear River — for drinking water in legislation considered Thursday by a state House committee. “Ratepayers should not be responsible for paying for equipment to treat the water contaminated by PFAS, caused by a responsible party, …
