[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Wisconsin: "So-called 'forever chemicals' are polluting waterways. But regulating them is proving to be a long journey."

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

So-called 'forever chemicals' are polluting waterways. But regulating them is proving to be a long journey.

By Brittany Trang
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
July 30, 2021


When Laura Olah heard that groundwater contamination from the Badger Army Ammunition Plant was heading toward the home in Merrimac where she and her husband were raising three small children, she headed to the library.

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These pollutants have contaminated thousands of Wisconsinites' drinking water in more than 50 cities, including Marinette-Peshtigo, Campbell, French Island, Madison, and most recently, Eau Claire.

Though industrial companies have known about the health risks from PFAS exposure since the 1960s and their dangers have been known to the public since the early 2000s, the federal government does not currently have drinking water standards for any PFAS contaminants. Attempts to curb PFAS also have faltered in the Wisconsin Legislature.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/07/30/forever-chemicals-causing-alarm-why-regulating-them-so-hard/8046915002/

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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
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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