Clean Cape Fear's Official Press Statement Regarding UN Human Rights Council Actions

The United Nations (U.N.) took action over the holiday weekend and recognized that the PFAS contamination crisis occurring in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina is a U.S. violation of international human rights law. On Thanksgiving day, the U.N. published five letters sent to DuPont, Chemours, Corteva, the United States, and the Netherlands in September. These letters were in direct response to a communication filed by Berkeley Law's Environmental Law Clinic on behalf of Clean Cape Fear, a local grassroots community group, in April seeking redress for human rights violations associated with PFAS exposures coming from the Chemours Fayetteville Works facility.

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