{"id":2577,"date":"2021-10-29T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:14:40","slug":"new-epa-directive-on-pfas-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/new-epa-directive-on-pfas-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"New EPA Directive on PFAS Chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you breath air, drink water, consume food, you are impacted by and contribute to our PFAS \/ PFOA\u2026 contamination.\u00a0 As I have said in the past, PFAS liabilities are going to make asbestos and lead look like elementary environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>PFAS contamination is not an IF situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s emerging and ongoing (Forever Chemicals) and impacting each one of us daily.\u00a0 In Michigan, where I live, we have roughly 200 identified PFAS contaminated sites and guesstimates are this will grow to roughly 11,000, just in Michigan.\u00a0 In the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park, they are detecting PFAS chemicals in the rainwater.<\/p>\n<p>Maine To Seek \u2018Forever Chemical\u2019 Contamination at Many Sites.\u00a0 This link talks about PFAS chemicals in sewage sludge and paper mill sludge that has been applied as farm fertilizer.\u00a0 This agricultural practice takes place around the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/east\/2021\/10\/15\/637444.htm\">https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/east\/2021\/10\/15\/637444.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As environmental Strategist, our job is to assist businesses to manage and transfer their environmental exposures and PFAS is one you need to be prepared to coach client\u2019s and prospects.<\/p>\n<p>As the link below points out the Federal government is going to establish PFAS standards.\u00a0 You want to make sure you are on the front side of this by getting your insureds to inventory what they use that contain PFAS chemicals and find out what alternatives are available for replacement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2021\/10\/20\/638154.htm\">https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2021\/10\/20\/638154.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an example of how real PFAS liabilities are just click on the link below.\u00a0 You can also go to Google and type \u201cPFAS Liability Payments\u201d and read for yourself all the businesses that are dealing with PFAS liabilities.\u00a0 PFAS liabilities are going to impact businesses that manufacture, distribute, use, or sell PFAS chemicals or products that contain PFAS chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/southeast\/2021\/10\/20\/638080.htm\">https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/southeast\/2021\/10\/20\/638080.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PFAS Chemicals in Breast Milk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/environment\/seattle-study-of-breast-milk-from-50-women-finds-chemical-used-in-food-wrappers-firefighting-foam\/\">https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/environment\/seattle-study-of-breast-milk-from-50-women-finds-chemical-used-in-food-wrappers-firefighting-foam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you breath air, drink water, consume food, you are impacted by and contribute to our PFAS \/ PFOA\u2026 contamination.\u00a0 As I have said in the past, PFAS liabilities are going to make asbestos and lead look like elementary environmental issues. PFAS contamination is not an IF situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s emerging and ongoing (Forever Chemicals) and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/new-epa-directive-on-pfas-chemicals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New EPA Directive on PFAS Chemicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-featured","category-risk","category-webinars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}