2020 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 12:37:18 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Years-long fight for answers on chemical runoff in Colorado offers a glimpse at California’s future"
 
A toxic legacy confronted
Years-long fight for answers on chemical runoff in Colorado offers a glimpse at California’s future

By David S. Cloud
Los Angeles Times (CA)
January 30, 2020

FOUNTAIN, Colo. — When Wendy Rash was diagnosed in 2005 with a thyroid disorder, chronic fatigue and other ailments, her doctor couldn’t explain her suddenly failing health.

Soon, other family members became ill. Her brother-in-law contracted fatal kidney cancer. Her father-in-law developed esophageal cancer. Then her 32-year-old son began having severe kidney problems.

…

In October, The Times reported the results of California’s first test of PFAS in drinking water. Officials sampled 600 wells throughout the state and found that the two most common PFAS compounds were detected in 86 water systems that serve up to 9 million Californians.
…

For the entire article, see
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=183a93f0-35a0-43b2-82a3-431017d00d62

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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