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Joanne Stanton (left) with fellow Buxmont Coalition for Safer Water founder Hope Grosse discuss PFAS contamination in 2019. Stanton, Grosse and state Sen. Maria Collett, D-12, of Lower Gwynedd ...
The Wisconsin state Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would unlock $125 million to help municipalities and landowners cope with pollution from so-called forever chemicals. PFAS, short for per ...
7 December 2018 The Michigan PFAS Science Advisory Panel releases Scientific Evidence and Recommendations for Managing PFAS Contamination in Michigan, which outlines evidence-based recommendations for the state as well as recommendations for areas of future research or monitoring to address gaps in information. It includes a recommendation that ...
The other $25 million would be used to provide financial assistance to innocent buyers of land contaminated with PFAS, landowners who had contaminated sludge spread on their fields as fertilizer ...
Externality, including remediation of PFAS from soil and water contamination, the cost of treating related diseases, and monitoring of PFAS pollution may cost as much as US$17.5 trillion annually, according to ChemSec. The Nordic Council of Ministers estimated health costs to be at least €52–84 billion in the European Economic Area.
PFAS Legislation. To combat the threat of PFAS contamination, the Wisconsin legislature included $125 million in the state budget. Despite this, Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) have refused to release the funds to be used by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). On April 9, Evers vetoed a piece of legislation ...
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a Republican-authored bill Tuesday that would have created a framework to spend the $125 million "PFAS trust fund" established in the state budget and asked the ...
Following initial discoveries of groundwater contamination in 2002, the Minnesota Department of Health conducted numerous studies –concluding in 2008, 2010, and 2014 – on the level of PFAs found in the bloodstreams of exposed residents. On February 20, 2018, the state of Minnesota settled its lawsuit against 3M in exchange for $850 million.