Time is running out. Tell your legislators to protect Massachusetts from 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." Twenty-six states have passed laws to restrict PFAS in one or more products. Why isn’t Massachusetts one of them?
Take Action. Tell your state legislators to vote before the end of July to pass the Act to Protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS.
H4486 An Act to protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS (sponsored by Representative Kate Hogan and Senator Julian Cyr):
- Requires businesses to disclose if they add PFAS to consumer products;
- Bans PFAS in food packaging, children’s products, personal care products, textiles, carpets, rugs, upholstered furniture, fabric spray, and cookware;
- Bans PFAS in firefighter personal protective gear and firefighting foam;
- Authorizes Massachusetts Department of Public Health to restrict additional products;
- Prevents industrial discharges of PFAS to water;
- Sets up a fund to help test and treat private wells and public water systems for PFAS;
- Requires the state to phase out the practice of applying sludge from wastewater treatment plants to farmland.
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