Archive for October 2019
Threats to Drinking Water and Public Health in Alaska: The Scope of the PFAS Problem, Consequences of Regulatory Inaction, and Recommendations
On this call, ACAT staff discussed key findings and recommendations of our PFAS report, detailing how decades of use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams has contaminated water in Alaska. Residents from communities with PFAS-contaminated drinking water offered a community perspective. As of September 2019, more than 100 individual PFAS source areas had been identified at nearly 30…
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Let Governor Dunleavy know that we need drinking water standards to protect Alaskans from PFAS Decades of use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams has contaminated water in Alaska. To date, more than 100 individual PFAS source areas have been identified at nearly 30 locations across Alaska.The widespread presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in…
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