Records of Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz instill hope that progress under Biden could be extended
Public health advocates are optimistic that aĀ Kamala HarrisĀ win in the November presidential election in the US would lead to further regulation of PFAS toxic āforever chemicalsā, on which the Biden administration has already taken unprecedented regulatory action.
In part that is based on past actions. Last year, Harrisās running mate, the Minnesota governor,Ā Tim Walz, signedĀ bold legislation prohibiting the use of toxic PFAS across a range of common consumer goods from menstrual products to food packaging ā a measure that is considered by public health advocates to be among the āstrongest bans in the worldā.
Walz worked closely with victims ofĀ PFAS pollution as the legislation moved, said Sarah Doll, director of Safer States, which advocates for state-level regulations on toxic chemicals. āHe has lived experience with the families ā¦ and just having that could bring a deeper understanding of the complexities and the challenges that we face,ā Doll said.
Too late, thereās a reason these are nicknamed āforever chemicalsā.
You can prevent new ones from being created, but thereās enough out there to give us all cancer and then some.
Good thing this wasnāt the attitude about lead.
Yeah, we might as well just shoot ourselves in the head and stop trying to fix anything at all. Weāre all so doomed, itās not even worth trying to change anything. /s
And they are already inside you. āOut thereā is in our brains, our blood streams, our reproductive organs, weāre all already contaminated. Our children are already contaminated.
Stopping PFAS and microplastic production is about saving future generations from the nightmare we have created for our kids.