The bill’s co-sponsor, Democratic Senator Jesse Kiehl of Juneau, said the veto came as a shock.
to limit PFAS in drinking water. Alaska does not regulate PFAS, but if the federal regulations take effect, the state will be responsible for cleaning PFAS-contaminated water.
“Without state legislative action, the message from the Dunleavy Administration is, only the federal government can be counted on to get poison out of Alaskans’ water,” Kiehl said. “I don’t believe that’s right.” , an Anchorage-based nonprofit that has been lobbying for statewide PFAS regulation for more than a decade.
“It’s super counterintuitive,” Ortega said. “Dunleavy does not seem to care about his constituents, which is frustrating.”
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