One of the most important and worrisome threats to our natural environment and human health to emerge in recent decades is a group of chemicals commonly referred to as PFAS. Also known as “forever chemicals,” PFAS are especially pernicious because they’re toxic, cause all kinds of health problems, and don’t break down in the environment. For the last several decades, corporate polluters spewed vast quantities of PFAS into the air and water in southeastern North Carolina, thus contaminating public water systems and thousands of private wells.
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Thankfully, one especially important and effective group that’s emerged in response to this problem is the nonprofit Clean Cape Fear, and recently Newsline caught up with the group’s co-founder Emily Donovan as she returned from testifying before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Click here to listen to the full interview with Clean Cape Fear co-founder Emily Donovan.
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