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White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory visited Tartan High School and Lake Elmo on Monday to talk about forever chemicals contamination in the East Metro. The post White House official visits Tartan High School, visits ‘gigantic, toxic’ Lake Elmo appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.

OAKDALE, Minn. - The last time Amara Strande testified in front of Minnesota lawmakers, her voice was shaky, a side effect of the tumor pressing on her throat and the cancer that had spread through her lungs. It was the fifth time Strande had spoken to state lawmakers in support of legislation to ban a group of toxic chemicals, PFAS, which she blamed for her rare form of liver cancer. She wore a maroon blazer, which covered numerous scars on her body, a legacy of 20 surgeries she underwent after

Minnesota lawmakers are considering banning PFAS or "forever chemicals" in "non-essential" products beginning in 2025.

People who grew up in the communities where 3M dumped chemical waste for decades wonder why so many of them got cancer as kids, and why justice is elusive.The post