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So New Hampshire, I have a story to tell you.

I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and just had a bilateral mastectomy.

No history of breast cancer in my family, best guess is that it’s environmentaly triggered (as is the majority of cancer cases.)

#PFAS #PFOS #EPA
I’m not alone, there are a ton of cancer cases in our town of Merrimack. THREE cases of colon cancer just in my neighborhood. We’ve got kids with cancer, tons of women with breast cancer, men with prostate cancer, kidney cancers.

#NHPolitics
Hell even our cats and dogs (our canaries in the coal mine) are dying off with cancer and skin tumors.

I live 3 miles from our polluter, I was told by our state that I had nothing to worry about. You live too far away, your well is not impacted.

@EWGPrez @ewg
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New Health Advisories for 4 #PFAS announced today and they are VERY low
#PFOA: 4 parts per *quadrillion*
#PFOS: 20 parts per *quadrillion*
#GenX: 10 ppt
#PFBS: 2000 ppt

This is a huge deal

#ForeverChemicals | @ewg | ewg.org/news-insights/…
That means #PFAS are toxic in minuscule amounts. Ppq is a tiny, tiny unit of measurement. WA state explained in 2018, "Lay a penny on the ground and compare it — by area — to the entire state of Washington. That is equal to one part per quadrillion." ecology.wa.gov/Blog/Posts/Mar…
Wikipedia describes it another way:
One part per quadrillion (ppq) denotes one part per 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015) parts, and a value of 10−15. This is equivalent to about two and a half minutes out of the age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per…
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Dé bliksemafleider van N-VA in het #PFOS-debat is:

“Zwijndrecht wist het (ook) en heeft niets gedaan.”

Een goedkope one-liner die maar één doel heeft: de eigen, verpletterende verantwoordelijkheid volledig van zich afschuiven.

Daarom een draadje over hoe dan wel juist zit. /1
Aan het woord in de clipjes is schepen Vervaet tijdens de raadscommissie die het bestuur van Zwijndrecht zelf organiseerde op 16 juni.

Een week voor in Antwerpen de gemeenteraad samen kwam, niet op initiatief van De Wever of schepencollege, maar afgedwongen door de oppositie. /2
Steven Vervaet begint zijn verhaal in 2002.

3M stopt - na een uitfaseringsfase - finaal met de productie van #PFOS. Tot op vandaag beweert het bedrijf nog steeds dat de chemische stof geen enkel gezondheidsrisico met zich meedraagt. /3
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THREAD: EPA's Nationwide PFAS Action Plan announcement: I'll be live-tweeting this announcement, and based on review of what has been released by @epa, this has all the makings of being a hot mess, something that many of us have feared...and expected. #pfas #pfos #pfoa
Reviewing the early announcements, there will be no MCL's set today, just "starting the process." This is the EXACT SAME LANGUAGE that was used to my face from one of the higher-ups in @EPA when I met with former Administrator Pruitt in May of 2018. Waste of the last 9 months.
At the 2018 PFAS National Leadership Summit in May, @EPA staff stated that the MCL process would take year to complete, possibly as long as a decade.
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