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As Congress debates changes to the federal chemical safety law, North Carolina’s PFAS crisis offers a warning

By Will Atwater North Carolina’s struggle with PFAS contamination underscores the unintended consequences that can follow widespread chemical use — even as Congress is considering overhauling the nation’s foremost chemical safety law. That law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, governs how industrial chemicals are reviewed and regulated in the United States. Passed in 1976 and […]

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