Posted on Jul 13, 2019
Retired Marine Jerry Ensminger Calls on House To Designate PFAS as “Hazardous Substances”
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Retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger, who was stationed for many years at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina, lost his daughter Janey, in 1985, at the age of nine from leukemia after she was exposed to toxic chemicals while living on base.
Since then, Ensminger has been an outspoken critic of the federal government’s slow response to drinking water sources contaminated by industrial waste, including fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS.
The following is an open letter from Ensminger to the House of Representatives, urging members to support an amendment to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act authored by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), which would classify PFAS chemicals as “hazardous substances” under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund cleanup program.
Since then, Ensminger has been an outspoken critic of the federal government’s slow response to drinking water sources contaminated by industrial waste, including fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS.
The following is an open letter from Ensminger to the House of Representatives, urging members to support an amendment to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act authored by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), which would classify PFAS chemicals as “hazardous substances” under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund cleanup program.
Retired Marine Jerry Ensminger Calls on House To Designate PFAS as “Hazardous Substances”
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Those chemicals have a downside and we do need to acknowledge that and clean it up.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col Charlie Brown Still Trying to Wrap My Head Around the Firefighting Instructor in Orlando telling us that the AFFF was so "Safe" "You Could Eat It" "It's Just Made from the Marrow of Cattle" OMFG! I Remember Standing Above a Huge Pool of the Shit in Basic Firefighting School.
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