Chemours CEO Touts Speed of Progress Cutting, Cleaning Up PFAS

The Chemours Co. is working quickly and effectively to reduce air and water releases of the PFAS it makes as well as the chemicals left by its predecessor, its new CEO, Mark E. Newman, told Bloomberg Law.

“We are moving as fast as we can to deal with our commitments,” Newman said in a discussion about the company’s global goals and agreements it’s carrying out under a consent order for its Fayetteville, N.C., site.

Chemours announced this week that its global operations cut fluorinated organic compound emissions—a group of chemicals that includes per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS—in water ...