Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and North Carolina reporter Lisa Sorg as they discuss a never-ending fight over forever chemicals in NC drinking water.

Environmentalists have been fighting for over a decade to get PFAS out of the Cape Fear River in eastern North Carolina. The insidious chemicals have eluded traditional water treatment systems and flowed through the taps of hundreds of thousands of people.

Advocates scored a brief victory last year when the EPA announced new regulations to reduce PFAS in drinking water. Now the Trump administration plans to rescind them — leaving residents who fought for the standards devastated and enraged.

Lisa explains how pervasive PFAS contamination is in North Carolina, where the chemicals come from, and what comes next for communities locked in this “forever war.”

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