[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Maryland legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

One Small Step on PFAS in Maryland

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
January 11, 2021


​There’s a bill making its way through the General Assembly, SB 195/HB 22  that would regulate the use of products containing PFAS, (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances). The bill is a small step in the right direction toward protecting human health from the scourge of these chemicals, although it leaves most of the serious legislative work untouched.

This bill would prohibit using firefighting foams containing PFAS, although it doesn’t apply to federal installations that are required to use PFAS-laden foams. If  foams containing PFAS are used, the chemicals must not be released into the environment. Additionally, PFAS foams are prohibited from being incinerated or buried in landfills; Rugs and carpets may not be sold that contain PFAS materials; and the bill bans the sale or use of food packaging containing PFAS.

SB 195/HB 22 is lacking in several important respects. It nibbles at the periphery of the problem, although the Hogan administration is our first line of defense and it has failed us miserably.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/maryland-pfas-bill.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
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