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NC’s PFAS Budget Hides Key Research | Raleigh News
North Carolina just poured $48 million into fighting PFAS pollution — but with a twist that’s sparking controversy. The state’s new budget allocates $45 million to the Department of Environmental Quality for water system upgrades and $3 million for operations, while UNC’s NC Collaboratory gets $22 million to study PFAS in water and clean up fire stations. Yet here’s the catch: research from the Collaboratory is now confidential unless lawmakers choose to release it, and staff are now classified as legislative employees, shielding them from public records requests. Critics fear this secrecy…
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