PFAS and Environmental Justice - PFAS Series Article 6 of 6

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Why the burden of forever chemicals falls hardest on communities least able to bear it

The contamination of drinking water with PFAS is not randomly distributed across the population. The communities most exposed to PFAS are frequently those with the least political power, the fewest financial resources, and the greatest pre-existing health vulnerabilities. This is not coincidence. It is the result of decades of decisions about where to site polluting industries, how to regulate them, and how to allocate the resources needed to respond when contamination occurs.

Environmental justice — the principle that no community should bear a disproportionate share of environmental harm — sits at the heart of PFAS policy. And by that measure, the current situation fails badly.