They’re everywhere, they don’t break down naturally, and they cause disease: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals”.

What you can do:

• Waterkeeper Alliance: Tell Congress to Pass the Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act!
• EWG: Ask Congress to Stop the Spread of PFAS Contamination!
• WWALS: sign up for testing of private wells.

Debra Tann and John Quarterman look at the site where water runs off from Moody Air Force Base. Photo: Derrek Vaughn, The Valdosta Daily Times. 2019-01-18

The problem:

• U.S. EPA recognizes sewage sludge on farmland among human health risks of PFOA and PFOS forever chemicals 2025-01-14.
• Spill from Chemours Trail Ridge South TiO2 mine SE of Starke, FL 2024-01-30.
• PFAS in the Santa Fe River Basin in Florida.
• EPA Proposed PFAS NPDWR Public Hearing 2023-05-04.
• PFAS in sewage sludge as fertilizer 2023-03-30.
• PFAS forever chemicals are in everything –WUFT 2023-02-14.
• PFAS in fish in Alapaha River 2023-01-17
• Forever chemical residue can even be in your house lot 2022-11-27
• Forever chemicals contaminate Withlacoochee River in Georgia and Florida 2022-10-18
• PFAS contamination may be much more widespread than previously known 2022-10-12
• Forever chemicals in rainwater everywhere 2022-08-02
• Report chemical constituents for forensic PFAS source identification –WWALS to U.S. EPA 2021-09-27.
• PFAS fixes to wastewater treatment could keep drug residue out of rivers 2021-08-11.
• Moody AFB and Lowndes County on U.S. PFAS contamination map 2019-05-06
• Georgia legislature passed a firefighting foam regulation bill 2019-03-28
• Tank fire shortage of toxic PFAS firefighting foam at Houston Ship Channel 2019-03-19
• EPA kicks PFAS regulation a year down the road 2019-02-14
• Testing for firefighting chemicals in wells and waterways 2019-01-18
• AJC at Moody AFB about groundwater contamination 2018-12-07
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