FEBRUARY: Huge stretches of America’s farmland have been contaminated by fertilizer tainted by PFAS — a class of “forever chemicals” linked to cardiovascular, immunological, developmental and reproductive disorders. They may cause growth and behavioral problems in children and kidney and testicular cancer in adults. Affected farms face enormous and debilitating remediation costs or the harsh reality that their land will be unusable for food agriculture . . . . FOREVER. The EPA has taken steps to regulate PFAS chemicals and is reported to be on the verge of phasing it out altogether, as some European countries have.
The corporations responsible for selling these “forever” chemical fertilizers to farmers are now lobbying Congress to grant them immunity from lawsuits that would, if they were found guilty, force them to clean up the fields their chemicals polluted.
ACTION: Write to your U.S. Senators. Tell them not to grant protection from liability to fertilizer companies that sold fertilizer containing polluting PFAS chemicals. This will make it possible for farmers to sue the fertilizer companies that sold them polluting PFAS chemicals and to make the companies assist in remediation of their fields.
CONTACT: Your Senators
- Web: Find their names and links to their websites at senate.gov, send an email or leave a message via ‘Contact’ on his/her website
- Tel: 202 224-3121 (Capitol switchboard-ask for his/her office & leave a message)
- Mail: Senator (first & last name) S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510
Please use the info in this Action Alert to write a letter-to-the-editor of your local paper.