Three central North Carolina municipalities in 2024 fought — and won — for their right to release a potentially toxic chemical into the drinking water of communities.

Democratic state Rep. Pricey Harrison has filed a bill that would grant the Dan and Haw rivers the right to exist with good ...

The Cape Fear River Basin is the source of drinking water for 1.5 million North Carolina residents. It is also where three ...

A push by North Carolina's powerful industry groups has some worried pollution in Asheboro and elsewhere will go unchecked.

Chemical industry groups are joining water utility associations in a coordinated effort to strike down federal PFAS drinking ...

As NC delays setting limits on 1,4-dioxane, utilities like CFPUA face mounting costs to protect drinking water from upstream pollution.

In 2017, Wilmington-based Cape Fear River Watch learned that Chemours and its predecessor DuPont dumped chemicals from their ...

The event in Wilmington drew roughly 1,100 attendees, while a separate Hands Off protest in Brunswick County drew over 800 people.

The planet is drowning in plastic, with dire impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. Could a landmark global ...

Residents with private wells in Lumberton and Pembroke can get their water tested by Chemours for PFAS, known as "forever ...

"My understanding is that it will be incorporated into Raven Rock State Park, but that is all the information I have," Hegele ...

This is a view of Orton Plantation and its once thriving rice fields bordering the Cape Fear River between Southport and ...