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DEQ Sues Chemours Over GenX Dumping

瓜神app | By Charlie Shelton-Ormond,

Frank Stasio

Published September 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM EDT

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Cape Fear River at Raven Rock State Park NC — North Carolina initiated a lawsuit against the Chemours Company for allegedly dumping the contaminant GenX into the Cape Fear River

On Tuesday the state of North Carolina initiated against the Chemours Company for allegedly dumping the contaminant GenX into the Cape Fear River.

The state Department of Environmental Quality ordered Chemours to stop releasing all fluorinated compounds into the river or else the state will suspend the company鈥檚 permit to discharge wastewater. Host Frank Stasio talked with , reporter for WHQR, about the latest on GenX and contaminants in the Cape Fear River.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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