South Carolina Says PFAS-Contaminated Farmland Should Be Superfund Site

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : President Trump has declared the program, and clean air and water generally, a priority.
49% : It also reduces the use of synthetic fertilizers made from fossil fuels.
45% : Christopher Higgins, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and an early researcher of contaminants in sewage sludge, said there wasn't yet an established, cost-effective way of cleaning up such a vast area of farmland.
39% : Kim Weatherford, who lives 12 miles from the Galey & Lord site with her husband and son, learned there was a problem with her well in July 2021 when state environmental officials came to test her water.
28% : Cities and states across the country, including South Carolina, have sued PFAS manufacturers accusing them of causing environmental contamination and misleading the public by denying that PFAS presented harm to human health.

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