After an almost nine-month wait, the NC Department of Environmental Quality finally provided public records requested by Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League in September 2022. The records requested were regarding the agency’s efforts to communicate with the public on the health advisories issued in June 2022 for four PFAS—GenX, PFOA, PFOS, and PFBS. This is not the first time DEQ has taken an unreasonable amount of time to respond to public records requests. For example, BREDL finally received records in April of this year—after almost 11 months.
