Turn off the tap! It's time for a comprehensive ban on toxic PFAS in MA!
It’s time for Massachusetts to join other states around the country and protect residents from toxic PFAS! If we want to get PFAS chemicals out of the water, we need to stop making, consuming, and disposing of items containing these dangerous "forever chemicals." Please let your State Representative and Senator know that you want them to take action on PFAS by the end of July!
H4486 An Act to protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS (sponsored by Senator Julian Cyr and Representative Kate Hogan) bans PFAS in several categories of consumer products*, prevents industrial discharges of PFAS to water, and sets up a fund to help test and treat private wells and public water systems for PFAS.
It also requires businesses to disclose if they add PFAS to consumer products and requires the state to phase out the practice of applying sludge from wastewater treatment plants to farmland.
Take Action! Contact your MA legislator below and ask them to call for a vote this session on the Act to protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS. Please consider inserting your own subject line AND adding a sentence or two about why this issue is important to you personally. Legislators tell us that personalized emails are particularly impactful.
*Bans PFAS in food packaging, children’s products, personal care products, textiles, upholstered furniture, car seats, rugs and carpets, firefighters personal protective equipment, and firefighting foam and also authorizes the Department of Public Health to add additional products
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