Pat Rizzuto

The number of drugs that are PFAS depends on how the chemicals are defined, but the biologically-active medicines in water have long been an issue. https://t.co/dmynSGBVJt

These 3 new, SHORT films on #energy, #Climate change, and #environmentaljustice illustrate what I've experienced dealing with local residents. The people are sharp, have relevant information, and are a valued part of the policy-making table. https://t.co/y3NPzedV0D

Domestically produced semiconductor chips are a godsend to many industries but exempting those factories from standard environmental permiting proceedures has communities, environmental groups worried, @sklee_ca reports. https://t.co/7g3EXCPswh

A striking takeover effort https://t.co/ggkyxo6v73

A seeming conundrum: facilities that release pollutants often are located in communities that lack the time, power, and funds to fight that or to insist on stringent permit controls. What will happen to efforts to protect them? @JenHijaz dives in. https://t.co/aRAqb5FmZk

ICYMI: EPA's recent vessel discharge standards aim to protect the oceans from #PFAS. Specialized firefighting foams needed for emergencies-can be used-they can save lives--but prohibits uses that have long & needlessly flushed them into the ocean. https://t.co/fz7VneBbOG

So many scientists, attorneys, and other professionals shared their time, knowledge, and experience with us even though we couldn’t include all of them by name in this piece. Thank you to EVERY ONE OF YOU who contributed, and to @JenHijaz for her vision for this article.

Jennifer Hijazi @JenHijaz

Proud of this piece written w/ @patrizzuto diving into PFAS air emissions from a source often considered most ideal for their destruction: incineration. I visited East Liverpool, Ohio, where an incinerator that gets a huge chunk of these wastes sits right outside an EJ community:

Stronger FDA oversight of #chemicals in food welcomed by diverse parties, but the agency's description of its plans, which are out for public comment, don't give enough specifics to really weigh in, a diverse range of groups told @nyahphengsitthy https://t.co/1x2pLEl1hm

Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' residents prepare for court. Patterns & practices "rooted in slavery and its afterlife" have transformed their communities into "industrial sacrifice zones,” complaint says. See @JenHijaz free-to-all story. https://t.co/QO24kLOln1

ICYMI: Veterans' Dept. to study kidney cancer & #PFAS exposure tp determine if kidney cancer should be considered a presumptive service-connected condition for veterans exposed to the chemicals. #veterans https://t.co/8vLKhpiXRY

Exclusive. Talking hasn't worked. New Mexico is headed back to court for in a 5-year old battle over whether the state, which has EPA's okay to administer a federal waste law, can tell the Air Force to cleanup #PFAS local residents say is harming them. https://t.co/CjhqiG7nGc