Wake Community College history instructor Eric Medlin dives into the possibilities of how the river and inlet in Brunswick ...

A Connecticut resident described bumblebees coming back to the same flower with insecticide on it: “it’s like they’re getting ...

Shamrock, with a facility in Browns Summit, is involved in handling 1,4-dioxane, a controversial synthetic industrial chemical that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified as a likely ...

Several bills have been filed dealing with herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals that affect animals and, in some ...

Water quality levels in Sanford remain safe and unchanged after reports of elevated 1,4-dioxane levels in the North Carolina Piedmont, according to a release.

A new study has revealed that nearly a third of Americans are exposed to unregulated contaminants like PFAS in their drinking ...

Tests released February 7 by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) show that Asheboro has dumped extremely high ...

An upstream wastewater facility released record levels of a toxic chemical into the drinking water supply of the tri-county ...

Levels of the compound believed to be a human carcinogen at the Asheboro wastewater treatment plant far exceeded national limits in late January.

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The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant's 1,4-dioxane discharge reached 3,520 parts per billion—more than 10,000 times the chemical’s cancer risk threshold.

An Asheboro sewage treatment plant discharged an unusually high level of a toxic “forever chemical” into a tributary of the Deep River about two weeks ago, the North Carolina Department ...