[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Michigan creates multi-agency PFAS pollution response team"

[Lenny Siegel]

Michigan creates multi-agency PFAS pollution response team

By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
November 13, 2017


LANSING, MI -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has created a multi-agency response effort to address the growing problem of toxic fluorocarbon pollution that has contaminated drinking water supplies in communities around the state.

The new Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) will be led by former Michigan deputy attorney general Carol Isaacs and Brown University School of Public Health epidemiology professor David Savitz, who will be the team's academic advisor.

The team was created by a Nov. 13 executive order that officials say establishes an administration-wide framework for the type of contamination response already underway in Kent County, where an expansive state pollution investigation is probing historical disposal of chemical-laden shoe manufacturing waste.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/michigan_pfas_response_team.html

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