[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "EPA to help [New Mexico] farmers clean up toxic foam chemicals"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to help farmers clean up toxic foam chemicals

BY THERESA DAVIS 	
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL  (NM)
November 24, 2019 

Clovis dairy farmer Art Schaap still can’t sell the milk or meat from his cows.

It’s been more than a year since the animals tested positive for toxic chemicals that leaked into the dairy’s water wells from nearby Cannon Air Force Base.

But Schaap’s situation might change soon, thanks to a new $4.8 million Environmental Protection Agency fund to research cleanup of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the nation’s agriculture sector.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.abqjournal.com/1394972/epa-to-help-farmers-with-cleanup.html

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





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