EMC has repeatedly evaded meaningful water quality protections: HRA signs on to SELC PFAS and 1,4-dioxane “Minimization Rules”
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EMC has repeatedly evaded meaningful water quality protections: HRA signs on to SELC PFAS and 1,4-dioxane “Minimization Rules”

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.

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NC Sues Brenntag - June 9, 2026
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NC Sues Brenntag - June 9, 2026

Haw River Assembly is celebrating with communities across Durham in regards to news that the North Carolina Attorney General's office and the Department of Environmental Quality have filed suit against Brenntag Mid-South for illegally discharging contaminants into an unnamed tributary of Third Fork Creek, which flows through the low-income, predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood, McDougald Terrace, Burton Park and Burton McDougald Elementary School, before it flows downstream to Third Fork Creek and then on to Jordan Lake, drinking water supply for more than one million people downstream.

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