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Jake Auchincloss: “None of these cost more money. They all cost more money…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jake Auchincloss Closes Off Zeldin on Massive EPA 90% Budget Reduction

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

Or do you want me to name technology? A single technology? Okay, you have mechano, chemical degradation, gasification. Yeah. Not 90% cheaper. Supercritical water oxidation. Not 90% degradation, not 90% landfilling. Underground injection. None of these cost more money. They all cost more money because they're early incipient technologies. None of them are 90% cheaper. There is no plan from the EPA to protect the state that you championed when you were a member of Congress. (04:42–04:49)

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Asserts that current PFAS remediation technologies are costly because they are in early development stages.

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