Press Releases

In response to the ongoing investigation into the compound GenX and drinking water in the Cape Fear region, Governor Cooper announced that the Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Health and Human Services would request critical funding to support additional scientists, engineers and health professionals to ensure water testing and protection statewide.

Staff in the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality are gathering documents for the federal government’s investigation related to Chemours, the company that manufactures the unregulated compound GenX at its Fayetteville facility.

State environmental officials will conduct three public hearings to gather comments on the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s request for information and comments on the preparation of the 2019-24 national outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing program.

Governor Roy Cooper has expanded a state science panel to help guide state officials on ways to better protect public health and the environment from new or unregulated chemicals.   

Secretary Michael Regan of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has named Tim Baumgartner as director of the agency’s Division of Mitigation Services.

As part of its ongoing investigation, state officials today released new data for GenX concentrations in water samples collected July 12 and 13 in the Cape Fear River.

State officials with N.C. Division of Coastal Management are making available more than $115,000 in grant funding for marinas to install, repair and renovate sewage pump-out stations.

Officials with the N.C. Division of Water Resources are reminding people to avoid contact with an algal bloom that continues to develop in Fontana Lake.

State officials today released their first results of water quality samples and an updated preliminary health assessment for concentrations of the unregulated compound GenX in finished, or treated, drinking water.