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Articles by Geoff Gisler
Fayetteville Chemours plant still polluting water with toxic PFAS. What needs to happen now. Original
A recent story in The Guardian highlights a reality when it comes to Chemours: Despite significant progress in the years since we negotiated a consent order to clean up the site, more work remains. With new testing methods and information gathered over the last five years, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality must deny the company’s proposed expansion and do more to stop the company’s PFAS pollution. The court-approved consent order is a floor, not a ceiling.
Gisler, Burdette: Chemours cleanup plan falls short
By Geoff Gisler and Kemp Burdette Tuesday Mar 24, 2020 at 4:12 PM Because the company’s contamination has reached historic proportions, Chemours asserts it should not be held to its commitments. For more than two years, residents in southeastern North Carolina have grappled with the reality that the Chemours Company, and before it DuPont, knowingly contaminated their air, water, soil and groundwater with GenX and other per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
OPINION: Why we support the Chemours consent order
Officials with Cape Fear River Watch, Southern Environmental Law Center lay out their case for settlement over GenX contamination For Cape Fear River Watch, Wilmington is our home. We and our families drank contaminated water and we share the worries about what GenX and similar chemicals have done to our health. We hear the questions raised about the proposed consent order reached as a result of our lawsuits and we understand the concerns.
High Court Should Decide Clean Water Rule Jurisdiction
Upon first reading, the words “waters of the United States” hardly seem controversial. Yet the meaning of the phrase, which defines the reach of federal Clean Water Act protections, has been a source of controversy for many years. Beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1985 decision in United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, and carrying through its 2006 decision in Rapanos v.
The Clean Water helped N.C., but Trump could weaken it
As spring arrives, thousands of people will take to our local trails, rivers and streams. We’ll watch as our kids play on stream banks, wade in the water or reel in a fish. We were recently reminded that we can’t take those moments for granted. As reported by The News and Observer in the April 18 news article “Stay out of stream near site of PCBs,” state health officials warned Triangle residents not to play in, fish or have any contact with a stream near the Ward Transformer Superfund site.
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