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Why Clean Water Matters Here

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Lower Cape Fear rely on the river for their drinking water. Families in New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender counties never agreed to be test subjects for “forever chemicals,” yet they live with the health risks, higher water bills, and constant anxiety while Chemours continues to put its bottom line ahead of our health.

Our representatives in Raleigh and in Brunswick County have failed to protect us.

What We Support

The Blue Beacons support bold, enforceable action that protects people, not polluters:

  • Requiring Chemours to fully meet and exceed the terms of the state consent order, including real cleanup of contaminated groundwater, creeks, and river sediments — not just partial measures.
  • Forcing Chemours — not ratepayers — to pay for long-term filtration, monitoring, and medical studies for affected communities.
  • Strengthening state and local protections to prevent new PFAS pollution, so no company can treat our river as a dumping ground again.
  • Standing with downstream and historically marginalized communities who have borne the brunt of this contamination for decades.

We support candidates and officials who are willing to stand up to Chemours, enforce the law aggressively, and make polluters pay — instead of asking working families to shoulder the costs.

What You Can Do

  • 1

    Add your name to our petition demanding that state and local officials require Chemours to fund full cleanup and long-term health protections.

    Sign the petition →
  • 2

    Contact your legislators and county commissioners — tell them you expect PFAS cleanup to be a priority and refuse any deal that lets Chemours off the hook.

    Find your rep →
  • 3

    Share credible information about PFAS and the Chemours case from trusted environmental and public-interest organizations so neighbors understand what’s at stake.

    Share resources →
  • 4

    Educate yourself and your neighbors.

    Learn more at CleanCapeFear.org →

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