Kyla Bennett, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, said there are alarming links between PFAS exposure and serious health problems.
“With any chemical to say chemical A causes health outcome B is a difficult thing to do,” she said. “But we do know, for example, that firefighters who wear their turnout gear, which is impregnated with PFAS, are seeing very high levels of testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and brain cancer.”