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Dear Concerned Citizens of Brunswick County, NC

Please send comments on Chenmours' groundwater plan to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) at:

before March 6, 2020.

DEQ needs to know that the public is paying attention. Here are some things to consider including in your letter of personal comments to DEQ about the current Chemours' plan.

1. Chemours has polluted 45,000 acres of local groundwater with toxic chemicals and poisoned public water supplies for decades, yet now Chemours proposes to avoid paying what is needed to protect people and our communities.

2. Chemours' plan leaves highly contaminated groundwater at the site and does little to stop toxic pollutants from from leaking into people's wells AND local rivers & streams.

3. DEQ must ensure that families, county citizens and downstream communities do not bear any financial burden in paying all costs associated with cleaning up all toxic pollutant emissions. AND that Chemours does pay directly for all cleanup costs.

4. Also, please let DEQ know that Chemours (and stockholders) must commit to placing the health of North Carolinians living near the facililty, the Cape Fear River, and in downstream communities - before it's bottom line - which their proposed plan fails to do!

Brunswick Environmental Action Team

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Environmental Lobbying in D.C. on November 14-15, 2017

Ten BEAT members travelled from Brunswick County to Washington DC on November 15 to lobby on Capitol Hill on behalf of the Marine Mammals Protection Act. The BEAT contingent met with Congressmen Rouzer and Butterfield and with the legislative assistants of Senators Burr and Tillis. Shortly after meeting with the staffers, the Senators announced their opposition to President Trump's nominee to the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition to meeting environmentalists from all over the country the BEAT team was treated to a private tour of the United States Capitol.

THE BEAT CREW IN DC: Left to right: Sandy Ford, Kristen Colleran, Bruce Holsten, Mary Baggett, Barbara Kucinski-Gilbert, Dwight Willis, Neil Gilbert, Becky Willis, Pete Key, Beth Key

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