Hidden threat: North Carolina textile plant released millions of times the EPA limit for “forever chemicals”—and lawmakers did nothing

Hidden threat: North Carolina textile plant released millions of times the EPA limit for “forever chemicals”—and lawmakers did nothing

New research from Duke University traced high PFAS levels in North Carolina’s Haw River to a textile plant releasing nanoparticle “precursor” chemicals undetectable by standard tests. Concentrations reached 12 million parts-per-trillion in wastewater—3 million times the EPA drinking water limit. The plant’s Zimpro wastewater treatment process inadvertently converted these invisible precursors into toxic, regulated PFAS […]