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@MariahCBlake
Apr 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Big news! In a long overdue step, the EPA just set binding caps for six forever chemicals in drinking water. The limits for the two most notorious, PFOA and PFOS, are 4 parts per trillion each, the lowest level that can be reliably detected. 1/ apnews.com/article/foreve…
Notably, the EPA set the health-based goal for these substances at zero, meaning no level of exposure can be considered safe. 2/
Since #PFAS are literally everywhere, the logistics and expense of getting them out of drinking water are going to be mind boggling. But generations of Americans will be safer because of the steps the EPA took today. 3/
Above all, today’s momentous developments are a testament to the power of ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. It is only thanks to the dogged advocacy of people whose lives were upended by #PFAS that the EPA is paying attention to these insideous substances. 4/

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Jun 30, 2023
I had the privilege of spending a year at @Harvard on a journalism fellowship and found it eye-opening to meet so many bright people who had been conditioned to believe they were destined to accomplish something big. The self assurance it gave them was incredibly powerful. 1/
I don’t mean to imply that they were arrogant; the ones I got to know were lovely, accepting, and down to earth. It’s just that they moved through the world with a quiet confidence that doors they needed to open would open and hurdles they wanted cleared would be cleared. 2/
As a person who grew up surrounded by poverty, living for stretches in a beat-up trailer w/ no running water, their ease felt foreign to me. I’ve known so many extraordinary people but most struggled with self doubt. Instead of reveling in successes, they felt like imposters. 3/
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Sep 22, 2019
Let’s be clear. @MrAndyNgo & his ilk are engaged in a twisted propaganda campaign designed to make people believe Nazis, facists & violent white nationalists are not the real problem, that radical resistance to them is. This is an good example of their methods. 1/
Ngo’s tweet, with its reference to “weapons,” makes Jepson sound like a violent criminal, but the booking sheet Ngo attached lists two alleged infractions: resisting arrest and criminal mischief III (meaning tampering with another person’s property). Neither involves violence. 2/
The “weapons” Ngo refers to include spray paint, Guerrilla Glue, safety glasses, rubber gloves, a hammer, and what appears to be an X-Acto knife. Sure, some of them *could* be used to violent ends, but more likely these are the tools of a vandal. 3/
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Jul 24, 2019
Robert Mueller’s testimony isn’t the only important event happening Wednesday. The House is holding hearings on industry’s Big Tobacco-style campaign to suppress data on the health effects of #PFAS. Bucky Bailey (pictured below) is the first witness. images.app.goo.gl/M4TofNt2NZPGNK…? 1/
Bucky is not the only American touched by #PFAS. More than 99% of us have #PFAS—chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid disease, immune suppression, reduced penis size, low birth weight—in our blood. Also some of these health effects occur at general-population levels of exposure. 2/
But Bucky’s story is particularly illuminating when it comes to certain chemical giants’ willingness to put profits above the wellbeing of ordinary people. Bucky’s mother, Sue, worked at a DuPont plant in WV, which manufactures Teflon, using PFOA (part of the PFAS family). 3/
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