WASHINGTON - January 17 - Environmental Working Group (EWG) Senior Vice President Richard Wiles issued the following statement after a group of North Carolinians asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect their water from an indestructible, cancer-causing chemical that pollutes nearly every American's blood and groundwater near DuPont's Fayetteville plant:

"DuPont just paid the largest fine of its kind in the history of the EPA for covering up pollution near their Teflon plant in West Virginia. Given DuPont's track record in West Virginia, and the emerging evidence of groundwater contamination in North Carolina, it would be irresponsible of the EPA not to investigate DuPont's facilities in Fayetteville.

"North Carolinians know that it's easier to prevent pollution than to clean it up—especially when it comes to an indestructible toxic chemical that never breaks down and builds up in the blood of children and adults."

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