DEQ is also monitoring wastewater plants in Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, and Reidsville, where some progress has been ...

Hempstead Village’s drinking water contains “unacceptable” levels of 1,4 dioxane, a likely carcinogen. Now they’re getting $1.75 million to do something about it. “Hempstead Village is ...

Nobody is putting 1,4-dioxane into shampoo on purpose. It’s a carcinogenic impurity that forms in a side reaction during the production of ethoxylated alcohols, a class of surfactants used in ...

On November 14, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) determined that 1,4-dioxane presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health under ...

An Asheboro sewage treatment plant discharged an unusually high level of a toxic “forever chemical” into a tributary of the Deep River about two weeks ago, the North Carolina Department ...

The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant's 1,4-dioxane discharge reached 3,520 parts per billion—more than 10,000 times the chemical’s cancer risk threshold.