Residents condemn city officials for allegedly refusing to address toxic threat: 'Our community has been ... a target'

Residents condemn city officials for allegedly refusing to address toxic threat: 'Our community has been ... a target'

A North Carolina community is livid as its city allegedly refuses to control discharges of a toxic chemical into its drinking water.  What's happening? Community members in Asheboro, North Carolina, spoke out at a recent Environmental Protection Agency hearing about the town's 1,4-dioxane problem, Inside Climate News reported.  This industrial solvent and likely human carcinogen is being dumped into the Upper Cape Fear River Basin by the city's …