[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: EWG Statement on EPA's PFAS proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Environmental Working Group
April 25, 2019

A Band-Aid that does nothing to help contaminated communities


WASHINGTON - The draft interim recommendations for cleanup of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, announced today by Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, are a woefully inadequate response to the growing nationwide crisis of drinking water contaminated with PFAS, said EWG Senior Scientist David Andrews.

“This proposal is not a serious response to a drinking water contamination crisis that has already ballooned out of control,” said Andrews. “It is a Band-Aid, at best, that does essentially nothing to help the hundreds - perhaps thousands - of communities, in almost every state, with contaminated tap water. Americans need real and swift action to address this crisis, not more toothless proposals from the Trump administration.”


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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/release/epa-s-proposed-pfas-guidance-falls-far-short-public-health-protection-and-cleanup

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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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