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Dear [Member of Congress],
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) kill. There is scientific evidence that these “forever chemicals” cause cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, and liver damage, and batters the immune system.
In the last days of the Biden Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency started to make that official with a draft determination of the health risks of PFAS in sewage sludge disposed of on farmland. Biden's EPA found that these toxic "forever chemicals" cause cancer and other diseases in people who live near farm fields where sludge is dumped--or who consume tainted milk, beef, or other foods from these farms--including kidney and liver cancers, decreased birth weight, increased cholesterol, and diminished immune system function.
Now, Republicans in Congress are trying to stop Trump's EPA from following up. Republicans in control of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee is included a policy rider in their fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill, Section 507, that would permanently prohibit the EPA from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing its Draft Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS in sewage sludge.
Please work to remove Section 507. If it can't be removed, vote against the bill.
I appreciate the work the Biden Administration did to protect drinking water from PFAS, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s drinking water rules only targeted six formulations when more than 12,000 exist! This doesn't matter much now that Trump's EPA is refusing to enforce the little Biden's EPA did.
Worse, Biden's EPA never followed through on its promise to stop the estimated 30,000 PFAS polluters from releasing it into the environment via wastewater discharged into surface waters and municipal sewage treatment facilities.
This is unacceptable.
Only a fifth of Americans’ PFAS exposure comes from drinking water.
Because PFAS polluters get a free pass to dump their waste directly into the sewage system and the main way sewage is disposed of is via land-application (marketed as “fertilizer” to farmers), PFAS also ends up in our food.
And, we’re also exposed to PFAS through a staggering number of consumer products, including carpet, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn, yoga pants, bags and toiletries like dental floss, shampoo and cosmetics.
The people most at risk are farmers spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge to their land, workers producing or working with these PFAS-containing products, and firefighters and soldiers exposed via “protective” gear and foams.
We need a federal ban on PFAS and drinking water regulations that protect us from all 12,000 formulations.
Local water treatment plants shouldn’t have to foot the bill for the companies who have profited from PFAS since these chemicals were invented in the 1930s.
So far, the EPA put two PFAS compounds under its Superfund authority, shifting accountability for cleanup from taxpayers to polluters, but again, this should be extended to all 12,000 formulations.
Please take action to ban PFAS, get it out of our water, out of consumer products, out of the military, out of firefighting, out of food and farming, and make the polluters pay to clean up their mess and for all the health and environmental harms they’ve caused!
Thank you.
[Your Name]