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In 2015, residents of Hoosick Falls, a village located in Rensselaer County, were informed by the Environmental Protection Agency that their drinking water was unsafe to drink due to PFOA contamination. For years, Hoosick Falls residents were in the dark about the cancer-causing chemical in their drinking water. A local […]
Former EPA administrator Judith Enck is leading an effort to identify the effects of chemically contaminated drinking water. At a press conference Tuesday, Enck, who also served as Secretary of the Environment under Eliot Spitzer, pointed to the fluorine containing chemical, PFOA or perfluorooctanoic acid, that has been produced by […]