State water quality regulators delay action on forever chemicals
State environmental officials in charge of coming up with rules to regulate North Carolina’s water supply are continuing to advocate for proposals that would allow industrial polluters to self-regulate the “forever chemicals” they discharge into local waterways.
As PFAS contamination grows, state regulators look to ease rules for polluters
Factories that release PFAS into North Carolina’s waterway could be left to their own devices under a new proposal from state bureaucrats overseeing water quality
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.
