[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Scientist: PFAS has been contaminating Michigan population for years"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Scientist: PFAS has been contaminating Michigan population for years

by Paul Egan
Detroit Free Press (MI)
November 14, 2018

GRAND RAPIDS – Angry and frightened.

Those are not words one often hears from a state government scientist.

But that's how a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality official said he felt after realizing - eight years ago - the scope and strength of the state's problems with PFAS chemicals, which have contaminated water supplies and endangered the health of residents at sites around the state.

"In 2010, I began to feel that I was at the edge of the abyss looking into hell with the weight of the world on my shoulders," Robert Delaney testified Tuesday at a PFAS meeting in Grand Rapids organized by U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich..

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For the entire article, see
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/11/13/delaney-pfas-michigan/1986891002/

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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>
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