House Dems Call for Action on PFAS

Liz Gullett

Sep 07, 2018

This week members of the House Democratic caucus held a press conference to urge the legislature to take immediate action to strengthen PFAS water quality standards. Since PFAS was first discovered in private Michigan wells last year, 16 out of 83 counties have identified contaminated sites, with thousands of additional sites still being tested.

The members outlined legislation that Representative Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) has introduced, which includes:

Strengthening Michigan drinking water regulations for perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOS and PFOA
Lowering the safe drinking water advisory threshold for PFOA and PFOS from 70 parts per trillion (ppt) combined to a 5 ppt limit each

For more information, please visit https://housedems.com/water to view the caucus’ action plan on this issue.

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