I would like to enter into the record a presentation by the Responsible Science Policy Coalition dated July 24th, 2018.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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In the lobbying materials by the coalition, it states, and I quote, the weight of current scientific evidence does not show that PFOS or PFOA cause adverse health effects in humans at current rates of exposure.
We are digging our own graves fire by fire, hurricane by hurricane, heatwave by heatwave.
It is all there in our homes. And if we were to lose it, we lose a core part of ourselves.
The amount that pharmaceuticals spent on that same time to buy their own stock for the sole purpose of driving up the price was $516 billion.





