Use your voice to protect our groundwater from PFAS chemicals

We need your help asking the state to protect groundwater -- which roughly 25 percent of North Carolinians rely on for drinking water -- from dangerous "forever chemicals," also known as PFAS.

Even low levels of forever chemicals can harm the liver, kidneys, thyroid, and immune system, and interfere with the development of children exposed in the womb and through their mother's milk. The NC Environmental Management Commission (EMC) has proposed a new standard for two of the many PFAS chemicals that threaten groundwater across the state. But the available science supports -- and other states have adopted -- stronger groundwater standards, not just for these two toxics, but also for other similar toxics. We need stronger standards and we need to tell the EMC to protect our groundwater.