But my House Republican friends have offered this bill that further rolls back the remaining protections on clean water. Mr. Speaker, there are a couple of articles this week that make this why this is so important. Louisville, Kentucky, their water facility recently investigated why they had a spike in pfas, so called forever chemicals, and found out that a superconductor plant, chemours, had dumped PFAs in their water called Gen X. And this is a company that knowingly violated the allowable dumping limit several times. The only way that folks knew that they were able to address this is because they found out that chemhorse had been violating its Clean Water act permit. (00:44–00:58)
CLAIM
Asserts that a Louisville water facility found PFAs dumped by Chemours, causing a spike in these chemicals.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
