Nearly 17 years ago, North Carolina government officials received written notification of DuPont Fayetteville Works' significant emissions of HFPO (hexafluoropropylene oxide) and HFP (hexafluoropropylene) to the air, along with a list of fluorocarbons (PFAS chemicals) associated with the VOC (volatile organic compound) emissions from their large Fluorochemicals Plant along the Cape Fear River.
Was this government document discarded? In June of 2019, a government inspector in the Fayetteville Office of the NC DEQ Division of Air Quality indicated that numerous DuPont documents were discarded by government officials in 2016 due to "water damage."