If it's on their land, it's not because they put it there. It's because it got there via other means. We cannot deem them to be a polluter, which is the way The Evers administration was looking to [deem landowners as polluters]. do it. So if it got on your land via an underground aquifer river or it was spread on your land as a farmer with the pollutants of wastewater that … (17:28–17:31)
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Asserts that the Evers administration considered labeling landowners as polluters due to PFAS contamination.
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