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Courtroom Loss Should Serve as Call to Action: Designate PFAS as hazardous!

Last week, Judge Pappert dismissed the PFAS exposure medical monitoring suit we filed against the US Navy because, even though…

5 years ago

A ‘forever chemical’ poisons drinking water near military bases

Congress fails to act; Community fights on Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which, to our bitter disappointment, leaves…

5 years ago

Getting justice for PFAS victims is a steep uphill battle

Getting justice for PFAS victims is a steep uphill battle.  The chemicals were entirely unregulated as recently as five years…

5 years ago

Briefing Key Congressional Committees on the Need for Action on Poisons in Our Water

On Friday November 22, I joined my colleagues Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton of Buxmont Coalition for Safer Water to…

5 years ago

PFAS Exposure Sites Designated for Important Health Study

The ATSDR announced the centers of the multi-site health study that will look at the relatio0nship between PFAS exposure. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/news/displaynews.asp?PRid=2679…

5 years ago

PA taxpayers subsidize Defense Department’s pollution

In a much ballyhooed trip to Horsham, Gov. Wolf proudly announced that $3.8 million of the Commonwealth budget will go…

5 years ago

Dangerous Discharges continue as DOD does Nothing

The July 28 article in the Bucks Intelligencer (https://www.theintell.com/news/20190728/docs-military-chemical-hazards-going-unaddressed) warned about the high levels of PFAS being discharged into creeks…

5 years ago

A “Holistic and Agressive” approach to cleaning up PFAS at military bases?

The newly installed Secretary of Defense has pledged a “holistic and aggressive” approach to cleaning up PFAS at military bases.…

5 years ago

Report from National PFAS conference

Just back from the exhilarating, overwhelming and inspiring Second National PFAS Conference at Northeastern University in Boston SEE: https://pfasproject.com/2019/02/05/2019-pfas-conference/ Some…

5 years ago

Governor Wolf’s cop-out

On May 21 Gov. Wolf appeared at the Horsham Water and Sewer Authority—ground zero for PFAS contaminants caused by the…

6 years ago