Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Mehreen Faruqi, has said that today\u2019s announcement of a NSW ban on firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals is welcome, but long overdue.
\nThe Commonwealth should now proceed with a national ban.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cCommunities across NSW will welcome this news. It is long overdue. Our environment and people\u2019s livelihoods have been ruined by toxic PFAS chemicals.
\n\u201cWe need a national ban now. The cross-party Senate committee I sit on has already recommended that the Commonwealth expedite the work to ban and destroy long chain PFAS-based firefighting foams. It\u2019s time to get this done. No excuses. No ifs, no buts.
\n\u201cWhen visiting PFAS-affected communities, I have seen first-hand the impacts these toxic chemicals have had on the lives of ordinary people. They all deserve justice.
\n\u201cThe government must commit to a proper compensation scheme for those impacted by PFAS chemicals, including the possibility of buy-backs. Too many people have been completely left behind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Mehreen Faruqi, has said that today\u2019s announcement of a NSW ban on firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals is welcome, but long overdue. The Commonwealth should now proceed with a national ban. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cCommunities across NSW will welcome this news. It is long overdue. Our environment and people\u2019s livelihoods … Continue reading “PFAS Ban In NSW Welcome \u2013 Now A National Ban Needed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}