Abstract
The US Environmental Protection Agency has cited Chemours for failing to control emissions of its GenX-related fluoroethers from plants in North Carolina and West Virginia. The EPA move marks the first federal-enforcement action against Chemours since fluoroether pollution from the factories came to public attention in the past two years. Chemours violated the terms of a 2009 consent order with the agency that allowed the firm to manufacture two of the chemicals, says the EPA’s notice of violation, issued Feb. 14. The fluoroethers are part of Chemours’s GenX technology designed to replace the use of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic perfluorooctanoic acid as a processing aid in the manufacture of fluoropolymers. The GenX chemicals are considered less toxic and less bioaccumulative than the substance they are replacing. The agency originally developed the consent order with DuPont, which spun off its fluorochemical business into Chemours in 2015. With that split, Chemours was
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