{"id":11648,"date":"2019-07-24T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=11648"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:08:07","slug":"the-devil-they-knew-pfas-contamination-and-the-need-for-corporate-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/the-devil-they-knew-pfas-contamination-and-the-need-for-corporate-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devil They Knew \u2013 PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/subcommittees\/environment-116th-congress\">House Committee on Oversight and Reform Hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, July 24, 2019 &#8211; 2:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> 2247 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515<\/p>\n<h3>Purpose<\/h3>\n<p>The hearing will examine the history of the science behind the health risks associated with PFAS chemicals; what corporations knew about this science and when they knew it; the current levels of PFAS chemical contamination in the United States; and industry efforts to clean up contaminated sites. The Subcommittee also plans to highlight the steps both Democratic and Republican state governments are currently taking to regulate PFAS chemicals and hold corporate polluters accountable.<\/p>\n<h3>Panel One<\/h3>\n<p>Bucky Bailey<br \/>\nAffected Resident and Activist Parkersburg, West Virginia<\/p>\n<p>Emily Donovan<br \/>\nCo-Founder Clean Cape Fear<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Wynn-Stelt<br \/>\nAffected Resident and Activist Belmont, Michigan<\/p>\n<h3>Panel Two<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Jamie C.<br \/>\nDeWitt Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Evers<br \/>\nPresident IS2 Consulting Former Research Scientist, DuPont<\/p>\n<p>Catherine R McCabe<br \/>\nCommissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection<\/p>\n<p>Robert R. Scott<br \/>\nCommissioner New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sliver<br \/>\nExecutive Director Michigan PFAS Action Response Team Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy<\/p>\n<p>Jane C. Luxton (minority witness)<br \/>\nPartner Co-Chair of the Environmental and Administrative Law Practice Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard &amp; Smith LLP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 &#8211; 2:00pm. Location: 2247 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515. The Devil They Knew \u2013 PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability Subcommittees: Environment (116th Congress). The hearing will examine the history of the science behind the health risks associated with PFAS chemicals; what corporations knew about this science and when they knew it; the current levels of PFAS chemical contamination in the United States; and industry efforts to clean up contaminated sites. The Subcommittee also plans to highlight the steps both Democratic and Republican state governments are currently taking to regulate PFAS chemicals and hold corporate polluters accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfas-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11654,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions\/11654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}