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Wilmington advocate rejects Superfund carve-outs, urges RCRA listing and source controls
Summary
Emily Donovan, cofounder of Clean Cape Fear, urged the House subcommittee to protect contaminated communities and pursue upstream controls, saying exemptions for passive receivers would not help residents already suffering from PFAS exposure.
Emily Donovan, cofounder of Clean Cape Fear, told the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee that residents of Wilmington and the Cape Fear region have endured decades of PFAS contamination and ongoing health harms and that Congress should not respond by weakening enforcement. "DuPont and Chemours used the Cape Fear region as a PFAS sacrifice zone for nearly half a century," Donovan said, recounting local illnesses,…
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