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.
Robeson County commissioners delay vote again on landfill expansion amid PFAS concerns
The landfill has received more than 5,000 tons of waste from Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant in the last eight years, according to estimates from the Southern Environmental Law Center.
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.
