Tell Gov. Stein to Oppose Chemours’ Expansion Plans

 

Chemours is at it again.

Chemours recently applied for a new air permit application to expand production and make more PFAS in North Carolina. Governor Josh Stein has sole authority to deny this permit request and we need your help encouraging him to act on behalf of North Carolina residents.

We don’t believe Chemours has earned the right to make more PFAS especially when it still refuses to pay for the decades of damage already done to our region by its Fayetteville Works facility. 

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Top 10 Reasons To Say “No More!” Chemours

We know there’s more, but here are ten examples of why Chemours has not earned the right to expand in NC:

  1. This is not a historical issue, it’s an ongoing crisis. In addition to polluting the Cape Fear River and the public drinking water supply for over 500,000 people, the company’s airborne PFAS emissions have contaminated more than 11,000 private drinking water wells across ten counties. More families living near and downstream of the facility are discovering that their water is unsafe every month.

  2. Chemours wants to increase PFAS air pollution by more than a ton per year. Approving this permit would allow the company to put even more North Carolina families at risk. DEQ must not allow Chemours to deepen its threat to public health and the environment.

  3. The United Nations has classified Chemours’ actions as business-related human rights violations. Chemours has repeatedly concealed emissions, misled regulators and the public, violated environmental laws, and leaked GenX and other harmful chemicals into the air and water. This is not a company that can be trusted to operate (or expand its operations) responsibly.

  4. Chemours improperly withheld air emission data within its new expansion request. In a Sept. 9, 2025 letter to NCDEQ the Southern Environmental Law Center said Chemours has unlawfully redacted air emissions data.

  5. Chemours continues to violate court orders, state, and federal laws. Chemours continues to breach environmental regulations, including North Carolina’s groundwater standards, its current air permit, and its court-ordered agreement to reduce PFAS emissions. Because the company cannot show that it is following the law, DEQ cannot approve an air permit for the company that allows it to significantly expand its facility.

  6. It’s not just PFAS, Chemours releases other toxic air pollution. In previous air permit requests Chemours disclosed it releases acetic acid, ammonia, arsenic, unlisted compounds, benzene, cadmium metal (elemental unreacted), chromic acid (VI), EDC,formaldehyde, H2SO4, HCl, hexane, n-, HF, manganese unlisted compounds, mercury vapor, MeCl, nickel metal, and nitric acid.

  7. Chemours continues to slow walk required toxicity studies from the 2019 consent order. It’s been over 8 years and residents still do not have access to this vital information.

  8. Chemours is actively fighting the federal GenX drinking water standard. Chemours successfully pressured the current EPA administration to vacate and withdraw the federal 10 ppt drinking water standard for GenX.

  9. Sea foam along Brunswick and New Hanover county beaches have extreme levels of Chemours-specific PFAS. A recent NC State study discovered the shorelines near the Cape Fear River have some of the highest levels of PFAS ever recorded in literature to date. Until our river and beaches are fully restored NCDEQ must not allow Chemours to make and release more PFAS.

  10. We still do not know the full health risks associated with our exposures from Chemours’ PFAS pollution. For over half a century our air, water, soil, food supply, and beaches were a PFAS sacrifice zone for Chemours’ Fayetteville Works facility. We do not have access to human health studies designed to inform us regarding the potential risks of these exposures. Our doctors do not have adequate information to provide proactive treatments and medical monitoring.