As US Begins Crackdown on PFAS, Indigenous Communities Are Getting Left Behind

Tribal water systems have gone largely untested because many are too small to meet the EPA’s PFAS testing parameters.

Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the Leech Lake Band Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota, never thought that a class of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, would be an issue for her community. That’s partly because, up until a few months ago, she didn’t even know what PFAS were. “We’re in the middle…

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