Brunswick County is filtering out PFAS from its water. It wants the companies who put them there to pay.

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Brunswick County is filtering out PFAS from its water. It wants the companies who put them there to pay.

By Leoneda Inge,

Celeste Gracia

Published March 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM EDT

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, wearing a suit and standing at a podium, announces the first-ever PFAS drinking water standards in Fayetteville, NC on April 10, 2024. — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announces the first-ever PFAS drinking water standards in Fayetteville, NC on April 10, 2024.

If you live in North Carolina, or anywhere else in the U.S., you鈥檝e probably heard all about PFAS. These are human-made chemicals that are long lasting.

Now, people in the eastern part of the state are trying to protect themselves from these chemicals with a high-tech water filtration system that filters out PFAS.

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Celeste Gracia, Environment Reporter at 吉彩网网站

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 吉彩网网站 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Celeste Gracia

Celeste Gracia covers the environment for 吉彩网网站. She has been at the station since September 2019 and started off as morning producer.

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