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Don Beyer: “This is a company that knowingly violated the allowable…”

Featuring: Don Beyer, Democratic | U.S. House Virginia, District 8

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Don Beyer Speaks Against PERMIT Act's Attacks on Clean Water on the House Floor

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

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. (00:58–01:02)

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