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EPA cancels funding for project studying Chemours contamination

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PFAS manufactured at the Fayetteville Works Plant have contaminated the groundwater and surface water in the Fayetteville area for decades. Credit: Tony Wooten / CityView

The Environmental Protection Agency has that looked at new ways to detect “forever chemicals” in the air surrounding

The project, funded with an from the EPA, was being conducted by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. The research, which began in 2022,

The , but on Monday, a member of UNC professor Jason Surratt’s lab confirmed to CityView that one of the grants had been canceled. Fayetteville clean water advocate Mike Watters is concerned the of data already collected.


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Maydha Devarajan
Editor-in-Chief



Credit: Tony Wooten / CityView

The Environmental Protection Agency canceled a research project that looked at new ways to detect “forever chemicals” in the air surrounding Chemours’ Fayetteville Works Plant, according to research participant and local clean water advocate Mike Watters.






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Maydha Devarajan is CityView's editor-in-chief. She previously served as CityView's managing editor, a position she started in October 2023. Her reporting has appeared in the Chatham News & Record, the Raleigh News & Observer and her college’s newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. Maydha was the 2023 Julian Bond Fellow at Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies, where she produced investigative stories on power, place and democracy in the American South. She is a native North Carolinian and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.

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