[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Saint-Gobain (NH) “substantially underestimated” its pollution

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Scientists, lawmakers say N.H. company spewed more ‘forever chemicals’ than acknowledged

By David Abel 
Boston Globe (MA) 
July 25, 2022

Saint-Gobain’s omissions “may have misled” regulators and led the multinational manufacturing company to “substantially underestimate” its pollution.

“We respectfully request that the attorney general’s office investigate whether [the company] has, and continues to, mislead the state regarding the full extent of historic usage of PFOA,” wrote the lawmakers, including state Representative Rosemarie Rung, who chairs a legislative commission investigating the public health impacts of PFAS, and scientists, including Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.

“Saint Gobain continues to play hide the ball from the state,” said Mindi Messmer, a former state representative and environmental scientist, who wrote the letter. “Their obfuscation has misled NH regulators and … allowed them to drag out and deny accepting full responsibility for the harm their pollution has caused.”

Christopher Bandazian, who serves as chairman of an environmental subcommittee of a state commission studying the impact of Saint-Gobain’s pollution, said he found the allegations “extremely distressing” and that “there are too many omissions from the company to plausibly accept.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/25/science/scientists-lawmakers-say-nh-company-spewed-more-forever-chemicals-than-acknowledged/

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Lenny Siegel
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