[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: 'Biden’s EPA set to take up issue of dangerous "forever" poisons'

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Biden’s EPA set to take up issue of dangerous "forever" poisons
Trump-era EPA sat on proposed designation of PFAS as "hazardous substances"

By SARAH OKESON
Salon
APRIL 11, 2021

Hope Grosse grew up across the street from a military airbase just north of Philadelphia where she and her friends would watch firefighters practice putting out fires on old military planes. At night they would climb the fence to the base and sit in a plane, pretending they were flying.

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Under current federal law, PFAS chemicals are considered pollutants or contaminants but not hazardous substances. This limits the power of the EPA and the states to clean up PFAS pollution.

The cost to clean up PFAS pollution is estimated to be 10s of billions of dollars. The military has balked at fully cleaning up bases in Michigan and Pennsylvania. At least 121 U.S. military installations have groundwater contaminated with PFAS.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/11/bidens-epa-set-to-take-up-issue-of-dangerous-forever-poisons_partner/

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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