WRAFT's mission is to provide community education and advocacy for the residents of Westfield, MA impacted by the pollution of their natural resources.
Westfield, MA
Joined November 2017
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Announcing a new resource created in collaboration with WRAFT and Nantucket PFAS Action Group. We’re working to address unanswered questions about contaminants and other hazards of synthetic turf athletic fields.
ALT An image of a synthetic turf field with children in the background Text reads: A new resource for communities Test the Turf Collaborative logo in white yellow and green with a sprig of grass in between the words the and turf
The gamma thing never even dawned on me until yesterday, and then somehow it was all weirdly connected. 🤣
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"#PFAS is probably the worst environmental pollutant that the United States has ever faced... There are no safe kinds... I’ve yet to see one that doesn’t cause some sort of cancer or immunosuppression,” he says.
Talking "forever chemicals." What I learned while having coffee with professor Graham Peaslee:
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The Barnes Air National Guard Base Restoration Advisory Board (RAB ) will meet on Thursday, July 27 at 6:00 p.m.
This is a HYBRID in-person/virtual meeting to be held at the Westfield Athenaeum and online at the Webex link listed on the agenda.
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That time you were waiting to submit public comment about the #PFAS and other toxic chemicals in #PlasticGrass athletic fields and you hear @BillNye speaking out against its installation. Took a direct hit to my #GenX #NerdGirl #ChemGeek feels! @nontoxcom
Hey, @BillNye! Thank you for testifying against installation of #PlasticGrass at Harvard Westlake. Astounding to me that communities are STILL allowing crumb rubber and artificial grass. #PFAS #microplastics #ClimateEmergency
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100% of contact lenses sent to EPA-certified laboratory by @Mamavation had indications of #PFAS. 18 soft eye contact lens products were found to have detections of organic fluorine, a marker for PFAS. Ranges of organic fluorine reported: 105 to 20,700 ppm
mamavation.com/health/pfas-c…
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There is a difference between an unavoidable accident & a series of public health disasters caused by corporate greed, deteriorating infrastructure, lack of regulation.. Clean water shouldn’t be a luxury, yet, that is increasingly what it is becoming #PFAS
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“We intend to reveal for the first time in open court the entire story of 3M’s role in causing likely the worst environmental disaster in the history of mankind.” #PFAS
PFAS and related chemicals wreak havoc on #firefighter health, the environment and impacted communities. @FRNSW spend huge sums of money on #PFAS environmental assessments every year but are saying very little about the health impact to workers.
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Ironic (and frankly sad) that clean water activist @ErinBrockovich is taking money to encourage residents in #PFAS contaminated communities to install PFAS-laden #SyntheticTurf atop their aquifer.
Be careful indeed!
#PFASarePoison
#ContaminatedWithoutConsent
#FakeGrassHasPFAS
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This Thanksgiving is different from the past two under COVID.
1. This year, the virus is way more prevalent, AND more way more immune escaping (from vax as well as past infection).
2. This year, our hospitals are overwhelmed for those unlucky enough to become very ill.
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Politely put, not mentioning that the three countries trending upward so steeply are all in western mass. It's a whole other level of negligence out here.
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Honored to be presenting @Baystate_Health during Baystate Noble Hospital's Grand Rounds today to help educate local medical providers about #PFAS contamination in our community.
#PFASarePoison #ContaminatedWithoutConsent
#TheMoreYouKnow
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‘Forever chemicals’ detected in all umbilical cord blood in 40 studies theguardian.com/environment/…
Nope. Nothing to see here in Hampden County, MA. No protections required. No precautions taken for a new school year. Just ridin' the waves. At least our data is being included now.
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We suggest that we’re outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for #PFAS in a new perspective in @EnvSciTech pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Oh dear, ACC - We #PFAS cancer & disease victims are shedding tears for your potential 'major threat for industry members' on toxic chemicals known to continue to poison people 🙄🙄🙄 A tad nervous over some lost dollars? Imagine the losses we feel.
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What the City reports as Non-Detect, the EPA 537 from the commercial lab reports as 4ppt, and @gfpeaslee finds 36ppt. With no cleanup action in sight.
#PFASarePoison
#ContaminatedWithoutConsent
Checked water from 9 PFAS hot spots around the country using the EPA's test, which looks for 30 compounds, and another that detects markers of all 9K PFAS compounds. No surprise: EPA test is undercounting how much PFAS is in the nation's water theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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And the % of justices ending this right who are men? 80. And the % of those credibly accused of sexual offenses? 50 nytimes.com/interactive/2021…