PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 13, 2023
Dale Craft, former Republican member of Maine’s House of Representatives, made several misleading or outright false statements about the Maine law passed in 2021 that seeks to restrict PFAS (“forever chemicals”) in products sold in Maine. He suggests we should study each PFAS individually. This is impossible, given that there are nowhere near enough resources to study the thousands of chemicals in the PFAS family. What is harming the “daily lives of Americans” is not regulatory overreach, but rather our constant exposure to significant numbers and often high levels of hazardous chemicals in our products and our environment, damaging our health, well-being and livelihoods. ~ Gail Carlson, Colby College Lab for Climate and Environment, and author of “Human Health in the Climate Crisis”