Calling all New Yorkers: Join us in stopping the semiconductor industry (and other manufacturers) from poisoning New York state’s drinking water.

Get “Forever Chemicals” out of our Drinking water

PFAS are highly toxic “forever chemicals” that are used in consumer products and industry. There is no safe level of exposure to these persistent chemicals. They cause cancer, reproductive disorders, and chronic disease.

The semiconductor industry uses hundreds of PFAS chemicals to manufacture chips. But PFAS used in chip-making ends up in our water, soil, and food. Chip makers and other manufacturers release the toxic chemicals into our rivers, lakes, and streams – or they send them to sewage treatment plants that are not equipped to remove PFAS. Some of these toxic chemicals end up applied to fields as fertilizer, and some of it ends up in our drinking water.

Ask Your Lawmakers to Support the PFAS Discharge Disclosure Act

New York State lawmakers are currently considering a bill (the PFAS Discharge Disclosure Act) to require industrial polluters to test their wastewater for PFAS and report publicly on their findings. (We’d like to go further and require those polluters to clean up their act, but understanding the scale and extent of PFAS pollution is an important first step. We can't fix what we don't measure.)

The New York Senate has passed the bill, but it hasn’t gotten to the floor of the Assembly yet. Please write to your assembly member and ask them to support the bill.