[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Michigan PFAS activists urge bolder action at fed hearing in East Lansing"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Michigan PFAS activists urge bolder action at fed hearing in East Lansing

By Kelly House
Bridge Michigan
August 8, 2022

Michigan activists last week urged federal officials to take stronger, swifter action to research and regulate cancer-causing PFAS, and clean up contamination at Michigan military sites contaminated by the toxic “forever chemicals.”
At a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Govermental Affairs Committee hearing held in East Lansing, federal military and environmental officials said they’re in the process of developing enforceable PFAS drinking water standards and cleanup plans for contaminated bases such as the Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda.

But state regulators and Michigan-based activists said more is needed, from support for data-gathering as researchers race to better understand PFAS, to greater investments in cleanup technologies and better coordination among federal agencies responding to the widening crisis.

And it should start, said Cathy Wusterbarth, a Oscoda-based PFAS activist and founder of the group Need Our Water, “with an apology from the Department of Defense to communities.”

Michigan is home to 10 military sites with known PFAS contamination, including the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, which became Michigan’s first known PFAS site in 2010.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/08/michigan-pfas-activists-urge-bolder-action/

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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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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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