Read the full article by Steve Curwood (Inside Climate News)
“Laurene Allen moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, to raise a family in the 1980s.
Little did she know that, in 2016, the state Department of Environmental Services would reveal that the town’s water supply was contaminated with high levels of PFAS, or forever chemicals, leaked by the nearby Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant.
A social worker by training, Allen became a self-taught expert in PFAS compounds and led a grassroots campaign to expose widespread health harms in her community linked to those chemicals. In 2022, the company agreed to provide drinking water to roughly 1,000 properties in the area, several years after entering into a consent decree with the state. Last year, the plant closed.” …