According to Dr. Detlef Knappe, CCEE professor and researcher, approximately 250,000 people in three eastern North Carolina counties are affected by a toxic chemical known as GenX. The contaminating compound is released into the Cape Fear River at an industrial site about 100 miles upstream from Wilmington, NC. Find out more in an article published on Wednesday, June 7, by the Wilmington Star News. (If a survey pops up on the publication’s website, you can click to skip the survey and move straight to the article.)