Press Release: 7/9/2026
Another compelling reason to pass the PFAS bill
Local town adminstator makes the case for tacking PFAS pollution
JULY 8, 2026
TPIN staff | TPIN
Paul Jacques from the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts talks to MASSPIRG's citizen outreach team working on the PFAS free drinking water campaign.
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Legislative Director, MASSPIRG
Another great case for passing the Hogan/Cyr PFAS bill outlined today in CommonwealthBeacon op ed by Town administrator Connor Read. Connor has been ringing the alarm since his own town’s water was impacted, later serving on the state’s PFAS task force led by Rep. Hogan & Sen. Cyr.
….”The good news is that we know how to tackle the problem. I was a member of the PFAS Interagency Task Force, established by the Legislature in 2020 and co-chaired by state Rep. Kate Hogan and state Sen. Julian Cyr, working alongside 17 other state and local leaders. We completed an extensive analysis of PFAS in Massachusetts, culminating in a report in 2022 that concluded that “the extent of PFAS contamination is vast and the time to act is now.””
“Our recommendations were included in a bill filed by Rep. Hogan and Sen. Cyr, “An Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS,”(S3034/H4870). This bill has been debated and modified in the Legislature over the course of the last four years. It is co-sponsored by a bipartisan majority of 109 state lawmakers, and supported by a broad coalition of public health, consumer, municipal, environmental, and community organizations, along with academics, scientists, and firefighters.”
“The science is clear. The problem is growing. Inaction is not an option.”
More information about the PFAS campaign.
About the author:
Town Administrator Connor Read led a comprehensive PFAS mitigation strategy in Easton, where routine well testing revealed PFAS levels above 20 ppt, the state maximum contaminant level for PFAS. In the years since, Easton has designed and constructed three PFAS water treatment plants to comply with the MassDEP PFAS water standards at significant cost. Read now works as the Town Administrator in Westwood, whose shared water district with Dedham is currently constructing PFAS water treatment systems. He served as the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s (MMA) representative on the Massachusetts PFAS Interagency Task Force and is a leading voice for municipalities advocating for a comprehensive statewide approach to the regulation and mitigation of PFAS in public water supplies.