[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle show concern about PFAS water contamination crisis at hearing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle show concern about PFAS water contamination crisis at hearing

News Release
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
September 7, 2018

This week the House Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee held a hearing on perfluorinated (PFAS) chemicals in the environment. Millions of people across the United States are exposed to drinking water contaminated by toxic PFAS chemicals.

PFAS, which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, is a family of more than four thousand chemicals that are used as grease-proofing and waterproofing agents. They are used in firefighting foam, food packaging, non-stick pans, clothing, building materials and manufacturing processes. While the most notorious of these “forever” chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, have been phased out of manufacturing in the U.S., their legacy of contamination persists. The chemical industry, meanwhile, has introduced thousands of newer chemicals in the same toxic “family,” such as a chemical known as GenX, continuing to put public health at risk.

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For the entire release, see
https://saferchemicals.org/2018/09/07/members-of-congress-from-both-sides-of-the-aisle-show-concern-about-pfas-water-contamination-crisis-at-hearing/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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