EPA

Representatives from the state DEQ and EPA toured the Sweeney Water Treatment Plant this Wednesday morning following a new health advisory announcement from the EPA regarding PFAS.

The Superfund site in Navassa is about to see its first segment transfer to the Town for ownership. The legacy of contamination left behind by a wood…

This week researchers from North Carolina State University released new findings in a study of PFAS contaminants in the blood samples taken from…

It was three years ago this weekend that the story broke...there are chemical contaminants in the Cape Fear that are also in our drinking water. WHQR’s…

Researchers at North Carolina State University have received a five-year, $7.4 million grant to establish a Center for Environmental and Human Health…

PFAS contamination is about more than drinking water. At a special forum last week in Fayetteville, scientists discussed how the chemical compounds might…

February 14 marks the first anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of its plan to address toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.…

Today the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment, released a national…

A bill filed this week in the North Carolina legislature could impact the water quality of the Cape Fear River. House Bill 560 would ban PFAS and other…

The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday announced plans to regulate a set of chemicals including GenX found in the drinking water system of the Cape…