In Towns Already Struggling, PFAS Contamination Increases Hardships

Learning of PFAS contamination is difficult in any community, but in communities where employment is already decreasing, “forever chemicals” add a very different kind of stress.

In 2016, Scott Waldman wrote an article on Hoosick Falls, a community that has seen this happen. “Hoosick Falls, a town of some 4,000 people, is the site of one of New York’s worst environmental crises in years. Television news crews and print reporters are an almost daily presence on the town’s main thoroughfare, Route 22, and men, women and children unaccustomed to the spotlight are growing tired of once again being asked to describe how they feel about the poison in their water supply.

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