Urge your representative to co-sponsor the PFAS Action Act of 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long promised -- and so far failed -- to set safety standards for PFAS "forever chemicals" and address widespread drinking water contamination across the country.

Just this week the agency designated $1 billion of Infrastructure Bill funds to help local communities address PFAS. The EPA also published health advisories on four major PFAS chemicals. These advisories warn that PFAS is unsafe at near-zero levels.

While these are important steps in the right direction, the advisories aren’t enforceable, and communities have already waited decades for action.

It’s time for Congress to address the huge public health problem impacting the drinking water of communities across the country by passing the PFAS Action Act.

Everyone deserves clean water. Urge your senators to pass the PFAS Action Act and protect our drinking water from toxic chemicals!

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It’s time for the Senate to pass the PFAS Action Act. Our country deserves clean water – nothing less.

Toxic chemicals called PFAS have contaminated the water supplies of communities nationwide, and the EPA has failed to protect the public. I urge you to take swift action to address the public health threat of PFAS contamination and support the PFAS Action Act.

The PFAS Action Act would set enforceable regulations to limit the amount of PFOA and PFOS – the two most studied PFAS compounds — in drinking water. It would also:

- Designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances;
- Require the EPA to place limits on the industrial discharge of PFAS; 
- Provide $200 million annually for wastewater treatment;
- Require PFAS health testing; and
- Hold the biggest polluters accountable for cleaning up their PFAS contamination.

Long-term exposure to PFAS chemicals is associated with health problems including birth defects, thyroid disease, weakened immunity, liver malfunction and certain cancers. Water contamination from PFAS is impacting millions of people in communities across the country.

Everyone deserves safe, clean water. Please take immediate action to keep drinking water safe from PFAS chemicals by passing the PFAS Action Act.

Sincerely,

[First Name] [Last Name]
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