Questions to Ponder:

PFAS monitoring, remediation, and destruction is a political, social, economic, and scientific

challenge. A few questions to ponder:

1) What is the best way to educate the public about the dangers of PFAS? Maybe history

can teach us something here, and we can draw lessons from how the harmful effects of

smoking were publicized that almost everybody (even smokers) now are aware that

smoking is bad for you.

2) What is the best way to create an urgency within the federal government to fund, invest,

or partner with companies in finding safer alternatives to PFAS?

3) What kind of incentives or tax rebates can be provided to retailers, hotel chains,

restaurants etc. to make them say no to any PFAS product/item in their ecosystem?

4) How do we encourage private companies, venture capitalists, and others to invest more

in startups dealing with destruction of PFAS?

5) How do we make companies currently engaged in PFAS manufacturing

(Chemours/DuPont for example) to voluntarily start phasing out these chemicals (just

like the 3M announcement in late 2022)?