by Carly Michiels | Sep 25, 2019 | PFAS, Water
We have seen firsthand how the insidious nature of PFAS pollution is creating major problems for residents and families in communities like Marinette and Peshtigo. Folks like Ruth and John Kowalski, who live just a mile from a firefighting training facility in...
by Jon Drewsen | Aug 23, 2019 | clean water, groundwater, PFAS, Press Releases
MADISON, WI — Clean Wisconsin applauds Gov. Tony Evers for signing an executive order yesterday to address the growing threat to drinking water and public health from the class of hazardous chemicals called PFAS. “PFAS is a public health and environmental challenge...
by Carly Michiels | Aug 14, 2019 | PFAS, Water
Lawmakers, Evers Administration make strides on PFAS During the Year of Clean Drinking Water, lawmakers and state agencies under the leadership of Gov. Evers have started to take early but important steps to curb PFAS pollution and protect public health in Wisconsin....
by Oliver Redsten | Aug 7, 2019 | PFAS, Water
Northeast Wisconsin residents grapple with PFAS pollution Ruth Kowalski can still remember the first time she read the unfamiliar acronym. It was the fall of 2017, and Kowalski, 64, was standing in the kitchen of her Town of Peshtigo home holding a letter that had...
by Jon Drewsen | Jun 21, 2019 | clean water, groundwater, PFAS, Press Releases
Clean Wisconsin applauds the State Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for a proposed state health-based groundwater standards for 27 pollutants including PFAS, which the departments announced at a press briefing on...
by Paul Mathewson | May 22, 2019 | PFAS, Under the Lens column, Water
What we know about this emerging threat to our water and health Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are an emerging class of chemicals with alarming health impacts. They have been in the news quite a bit recently, so this issue’s column will provide a basic...
