EMC has repeatedly evaded meaningful water quality protections: HRA signs on to SELC PFAS and 1,4-dioxane “Minimization Rules”
“EMC could have adopted water quality standards for PFAS and 1,4-dioxane years ago, but it has deliberately chosen not to—leaving millions of North Carolinians exposed to harmful levels of toxic chemical pollution.”
More than 4.8 million North Carolinians drink water with unsafe levels of PFAS, and more than 1 million drink water contaminated with 1,4-dioxane. Haw River Assembly has signed on to comments filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center to the Environmental Management Commission. Our water deserves real protection. The EMC has not been delivering.
“The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Cape Fear River Watch, Clean Cape Fear, Clean Water for North Carolina, Coastal Carolina Riverwatch – White Oak Waterkeeper, Grays Creek Residents United Against PFAS in Our Wells and Rivers, Haw River Assembly, League of Women Voters, North Carolina Conservation Network, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, North Carolina Sierra Club, North Carolina Stop GenX in Our Water, Sustainable Sandhills, and Toxic Free North Carolina, writes to express our strong opposition to the proposed PFOA, PFOS, and GenX Monitoring & Minimization Rules and the 1,4-Dioxane Monitoring & Minimization Rules.”
