www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/pfas-tainted-foam-lake-huron-prompts-citizen-outcry
PFAS-tainted foam in Lake Huron prompts citizen outcry
NewsThanks USAF, very cool
Shit! I spend time every month on the beach at Tawas State Park.
Sample D with the highest level of PFAS makes me wonder if there is some unknown spurce of contamination near Tawas. I would have thought anything from Oscoda/ausable would flow past the point and collect more in the bay.
Sorry, epa says we can eat this stuff still
Actually the EPA tried to do something about it recently. A judge in Texas decided the EPA couldn't do anything about it.
State rights, gotta love em
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Jesus, no. Yes, that's what the civil war was about, the states rights to determine if they were a slave owning state or not... but the US is a federation of independent states.
We've grown up in a time with a strong federal government, where federal laws superscedes state law, but that wasn't always the case.
It isn't the case anymore.
Thanks Regan! /s
I mean, Article 6, section 2 of the Constitution is literally about Federal laws superseding state laws. So, since the US has been a country, this has always been the case.
If only there were a section of the Constitution that mentioned this
It was because they’ve been producing takeout boxes for like 30 years and the epa only recently found out and tried to curb it but they tried to use a path that’s only for new processes that create pfoa/pfas that the epa has to like review but the company fell through the cracks?
This was Texas. Thanks Republicans!
Buddy I'm sorry but PFAS is already everywhere
It being found in the lakes doesn't change that.
Y'all hear about what happened at the dumps by Grand Rapids?
It being found helps identify areas that can be further tested and deemed unsafe/safe. Or for the example you cited, hold those that are responsible accountable. Wolverine had to pay out a massive class action lawsuit as well as replace the water systems in the affected neighborhoods.
Paying out a class action lawsuit doesn't undo the damage done.
The couple that was mentioned in the video both got cancer from the PFAS, with the husband dying a couple weeks ago the diagnosis.
Who is that class action settlement supposed to help restore to normalcy? The dead husband or the presently dying wife?
What happened at the dumps by grand rapids?? You mean butterworth?
Seems every decade we find out some other chemical we've been using for decades is poison and bad for us...
At this point, I'm just going to live my life and hope for the best without worrying about it too much.
I’m thankful that someone gave a shit so I don’t have to eat lead, asbestos, or a bunch of other shit that would be cheaper for our corporate overlords to feed us.
I already have anxiety. I force myself not to think of certain things at certain times, honestly. I'm really thankful for the regulations we do have and the people fighting to create new ones with reliable data. I just can't worry about what chemical is gonna kill me. I'm going to die when I die. I think that's what they meant too.
No, now they just kill us with what they allow to be in or food.
your forgot the "/s"
And we arguably knew something bad at the time but ignored it.
not just ignored it, the companies making money off it actively obfuscate the dangers
The companies KNEW about how toxic these are/were, they don't care though because... profit.
And people wonder why us boomers are fucked up. Asbestos, lead, mercury, etc., just part of our diet growing up.
Yeah if we could do this whole Great Lakes thing over again…
PURE Michigan my ass. 🙄😡🤬😫😥
I will say I feel like using plastic that probably contains PFAS to sample for PFAS seems like a bad idea. But I'm in no way surprised by finding PFAS anywhere anymore.
Ziploc brand bags are used for this specifically because they don't contain PFAS
There's actually a whole checklist you have to go through so the samples are contaminated. You can't wear certain kinds of boots, coats, gloves, and even have to test your hands to make sure the samples aren't contaminated. These samples are accurate.
People need to stop releasing their laundry detergent into the lake.
Can’t wait for all the beaches to be closed again this year. I hate this State so damn much.
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The USAF needs to clean up their own damn mess.