If we do not stop the Exfluor Research Corporation from building out on County Road 236, we should expect to see a rise in pregnancy complications and cancer among our residents according to studies that "linked growing concentrations of two of the most popular fluorochemicals, PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) - a known EXFLUOR product - and PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), to a bevy of health issues, including cancers and problems during pregnancies."
Globally companies and countries alike have stated they would "phase out PFOS under the Stockholm Convention, which controls persistent pollutants; this year PFOA is expected to be added to the banned list."
However, forever chemicals are just that, forever. These toxic chemicals "...don’t naturally degrade, hundreds of millions of people in Europe, the United States, Australia and China are still exposed to levels of these compounds that exceed what regulatory agencies deem healthy." - Tainted water: the scientists tracing thousands of fluorinated chemicals in our environment on Nature.com
Juries aren't the only to agree on this as "...an epidemiological study of almost 70,000 people which, by 2012, had linked C8 to diseases including kidney and testicular cancers, pregnancy-induced hypertension, ulcerative colitis and high cholesterol (see go.nature.com/2wzex8e)." - The Fluorine Detectives
While EXFLUOR will claim they are doing everything they can to keep the air and water clean... forever chemicals "often end up in wastewater treatment plants that are not equipped to remove PFASs, Knappe [Detlef Knappe, an environmental engineer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh] says, so the chemicals end up in waterways anyway." - The Fluorine Detectives
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