Industries that discharge toxic PFOA and PFOS compounds into the environment will now be held legally and financially responsible for the contamination, according to a final rule issued by the
Roughly 670,000 acres of salt marshes and swamps — greater than the land area of Rhode Island — disappeared between 2009 and 2019 in the contiguous 48 states, a congressional report released last week shows.
Lisa Sorg with NC Newsline has been covering environmental remediation efforts at the site of the fertilizer plant after the fire. She discussed her reporting with WFDD's April Laissle.