Chemours reaches truce in pollution investigation

By Rebecca Trager2017-09-15T14:08:00

View of Wilmington North Carolina from across the Cape Fear river.

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Company will provide authorities with data on perfluorinated compound emissions into drinking water

In a long-running dispute over emissions of polyfluorinated compounds into a US river that is the source of local drinking water, DuPont spin-off Chemours and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) have reached an agreement to cooperate.