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By Greg Barnes In the yellowed photograph from 1968, a young Lisette Partain sits on a hospital bed cradling her newborn baby. A glass of water and a partially filled baby bottle rest on a bedside table. Mike Partain, the infant in the picture, believes his misery began at conception  Although it wouldn’t manifest itself

By Greg Barnes UPDATE: This story has been updated to note the release on Feb. 14 of new EPA “action plan” to research, monitor, detect and remove of PFAS compounds from the environment. See the end of the story for details. The state Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency knew that

By Trista Talton Coastal Review Online Blood samples taken from more than 300 New Hanover County residents contain man-made chemicals unique to their drinking water source, but GenX is not one of them. Results of blood tests from a GenX exposure study reveal four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, specific to customers of the

By Vaughn Hagerty North Carolina’s health goal for GenX in drinking water would drop by one-fifth if state regulators choose to use preliminary data on the compound’s toxicity from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That newly published data, a reference dose representing a maximum level of daily oral exposure considered unlikely to affect a person’s