[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, COMMUNITIES: "Amico 'a true hero’ in fight against PFAS" at Pease AFB, NH

October 7, 2018

PORTSMOUTH -- City resident Andrea Amico had zero activist experience when she learned in May 2014 that two of her kids and husband had been exposed to dangerous PFAS chemicals in contaminated city water.

After attending a meeting later that month at the former Pease Air Force Base where the contamination was found, Amico walked out feeling officials “minimized the community’s concerns and downplayed the health risks.” That’s when she decided to get involved, she said in an interview this week.

Four years have passed and the married mother of three is now one of the most recognized activists in the state, if not the region.

She co-founded the Testing for Pease community group in 2015, serves on a national coalition of PFAS groups and has been tapped to serve on several boards that deal with the Pease contamination. She has established strong relationships with the state’s congressional delegation, which in no small part has led to several PFAS related bills being passed in Washington, D.C.

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