Residents Urge State to Deny Wake County Town’s Request to Pull Water From the Cape Fear River
Fuquay-Varina wants to extract up to 6.17 million gallons per day and put the treated wastewater in the Neuse River basin.
A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight Over Forever Chemicals
For seven years, N.C. activists overcame political and scientific hurdles to convince the EPA to regulate PFAS in drinking water. Now they’re confronting a Trump administration intent on quashing their success.
Toxic chemical discharged by Asheboro wastewater plant into Cape Fear River basin
The good news for Fayetteville residents: Asheboro’s discharge did not reach city water, PWC spokesperson Gavin MacRoberts told CityView.
State loses regulatory power for yet another toxic chemical polluting Cape Fear River
The decision prevents the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality from regulating the discharge of likely carcinogenic chemical 1,4-dioxane from polluters releasing it upstream of Fayetteville, allowing more of the toxin to flow into Cape Fear River.
State sets temporary allowable PFAS limits in groundwater
The state’s environmental regulatory agency has established temporary caps on the amounts of several PFAS that industries will be allowed to release into groundwater.
Debby departs, but officials keeping eye on Little, Cape Fear rivers
Tropical Storm Debby pulled away from the Carolinas Friday morning, leaving the region soaked, but generally much better off than originally feared.
County sees flooding, dam breach as Tropical Storm Debby makes debut in North Carolina
As Tropical Storm Debby makes its way through the Sandhills region, here’s what Cumberland County has experienced.
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PWC awarded $30 million for PFAS filtration
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission received $30 million in state and federal funding to develop a water filtration system to remove harmful PFAS chemicals from PWC’s water supply, which primarily comes from the heavily-contaminated Cape Fear River.
In Fayetteville, EPA to announce first-ever enforceable PFAS contamination standards
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency will announce new national regulations for drinking water contaminated with PFAS.
Lawsuits pile up against PFAS companies
Lawsuits aimed at holding the chemical companies responsible for contaminating the Cape Fear River with harmful PFAS chemicals have been gaining traction in the past couple of months. …
Forever chemicals, forever concerns: Cape Fear River’s ongoing PFAS problem
Six years after the discovery of PFAS chemicals in the Cape Fear River, area residents are still trying to figure out what that means for them and their families. “The further I look into …
Gov. Cooper issues environmental justice order, says it will ‘last beyond this administration’
Every year, the 6,000 people who live adjacent to the Port of Wilmington, in New Hanover County, are assaulted with hundreds of tons of air pollution: from the concrete plants spewing ultrafine dust, the fumigation facilities legally emitting neurotoxins like methyl bromide and phosphine, the ships and trains and tractor-trailers exhaling plumes of diesel fumes.
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