Read the full article by David Floyd (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
“Wearing sunglasses, a jean jacket and black shoes, Erin Brockovich gingerly inched her way across a massive pipe that crosses a creek in Dalton, Georgia.
Ahead, her colleagues — attorney Ben Finley and water expert Bob Bowcock — stood at the muddy banks of the small waterway. Donning a pair of tight plastic gloves, Bowcock dipped a test kit into the foamy water and held it up to a gaggle of reporters. Finley and Brockovich stood at his side.
‘We’ve got this source here coming out of the city’s park,’ Bowcock said, standing in the woods near Lakeshore Park. ‘The children in this neighborhood actually fish in this lake.’
Bowcock, Finley and Brockovich are part of a legal team educating the public in Northwest Georgia about the dangers of PFAS, a group of chemicals the Environmental Protection Agency says can, among other risks, increase the likelihood of prostate, kidney and testicular cancers and reduce the body’s ability to fight infections. PFAS is an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.”…