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Elissa Slotkin: “We've had people lose their entire livelihoods and…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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September 16, 2024 PFAS Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 28:22

It gets into the crop, it gets into what the cows eat, the cows get contaminated. It's really had devastating effects in the, for our farmers, not just in our state, but in other states. And We've had people lose their entire livelihoods and operations to PFAS contamination. But also if this affects downstream Michiganders, as the questioner asked, in the event that that contaminated fertilizer washes off the fields, gets into our rivers, our lakes, our ponds, our waterways. (28:22–28:27)

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Asserts that PFAS contamination has caused people to lose their livelihoods.

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