Clean water advocate urges Biden, EPA to focus on PFAS chemicals
PORTSMOUTH – Testing For Pease co-founder Andrea Amico is “optimistic” that President Joe Biden’s administration will work to better regulate dangerous PFAS chemicals now that he’s in office.
“We need incredibly protective standards to protect people from ongoing exposure, and not only people impacted at military sites like we were at Pease, but also at industrial sites like we see in Merrimack, along with firefighters,” Amico, a Portsmouth mother of three, said during an interview Friday. “I am optimistic that we will see more action from the Biden EPA than we did from the Trump EPA.”
By JEFF MCMENEMY | Foster s Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H. | Published: January 23, 2021 PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (Tribune News Service) Testing For Pease co-founder Andrea Amico is optimistic that President Joe Biden s administration will work to better regulate dangerous PFAS chemicals now that he s in office. We need incredibly protective standards to protect people from ongoing exposure, and not only people impacted at military sites like we were at Pease, but also at industrial sites like we see in Merrimack, along with firefighters, Amico, a Portsmouth mother of three, said during an interview Friday. I am optimistic that we will see more action from the Biden EPA than we did from the Trump EPA.
Parents and environmental advocates say the guidance falls short of needed mandatory regulations. Author: Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 3:43 PM CST December 8, 2020 Updated: 3:43 PM CST December 8, 2020
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Last month, federal regulators took a first step toward stemming the flow of so called forever chemicals .
The EPA will require facilities in a handful of states not including Maine to monitor wastewater for PFAS.
But parents and activists say the long-awaited policy falls short of needed mandatory regulations.
After Andrea Amico s family drank water laced with PFAS chemicals at the Pease Trade Port, she fought for a federal health study. Two of her children, including her daughter Sophia, now nine-years-old, were exposed at daycare.