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Kirsten Engel: “There is federal money that we're competing for in order to…”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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LD18 May 23, 2023 - Speaker Kirsten Engel for U.S. Congress

Published | Video Starts at 13:46

… PFAS and pfos, which come from a flame retardant chemical that was used in industry mostly often by the military. So it's Coming from a lot of our military bases. There is federal money that we're competing for in order to clean [PFAS and pfos contamination] up. But of course, the most important thing is to prevent it from getting to our groundwater in the first place. And we're not doing a great job at that. (13:46)

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Asserts that there is federal funding available for cleaning up PFAS and pfos contamination.

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