[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Chemical Lobby and Health Advocates Square Off on Bills Regulating Toxic Foam"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical Lobby and Health Advocates Square Off on Bills Regulating Toxic Foam

By Pat Elder
World BEYOND War/Truthout
June 2, 2019

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, holds tremendous power in formulating legislation regarding the regulation of deadly per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Barrasso is the Senate’s top recipient of cash from the chemical industry and has a lengthy legislative record promoting the industry’s interests.

Barrasso is also the Pentagon’s point man. He is opposed to addressing all PFAS chemicals as a class. Doing so might deprive the military of war-making technology they say is vital to their mission. PFAS is the active ingredient in fire-fighting foams used by the military during routine fire-fighting exercises on military bases. The carcinogenic foam is allowed to leach into the soil to poison groundwater and municipal sewer systems. Nothing can put out a super-hot petroleum fire like PFAS-laced foam.

Common sense legislation calls for all 5,000+ PFAS chemicals to collectively be regulated because they are all deemed to be toxic.

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For the entire article, see
https://truthout.org/articles/chemical-lobby-and-health-advocates-square-off-on-bills-regulating-toxic-foam/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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