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Orange County asks state to deny UNC Chapel Hill permit for pelletized fuel over PFAS, health concerns
Summary
Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution on Jan. 21, 2025 asking the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to deny UNC Chapel Hill’s application to modify its Title V air permit to allow combustion of engineered pelletized fuel.
Orange County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution on Jan. 21, 2025 asking the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to deny the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s application to modify its Title V air permit to allow combustion of engineered pelletized fuel at the university’s cogeneration facility in Chapel Hill.
The resolution, read aloud during the meeting and offered for adoption the same night, points to the county’s 2023 Climate Action Plan and to testimony at a Jan. 16 public hearing expressing concern that the…
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