How to Fight to Stop PFA production. Step 1.

by Btemmink

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Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 at 7:27:07am PST

Since I put my foot in my mouth on boycotting PFA producers, I thought I’d learn a little more about them. Below is a link to ChemSec. I do know my local river, the Gunpowder has lots of PFA’s and even before the Trump administration, there was no plan to remove them from the waters.

One place to start is to gather information. This is ChemSec. They have a list of the top 12 PFA manufacturers.

This might be a good place to start. Dr. Crouch is their outreach guy. I have sent him an email asking what he would suggest we could do. I also asked him to write a Daily Kos letter stating what he thinks would be the most effective action the general public can take.

Now, from my reading of the ChemSEc website, they mostly do research for companies that use large quantities of chemicals in order to provide these companies with alternatives.

Chemsec does, however, also have a guide for products individuals might want to avoid.

None of this seems geared towards building a massive boycott movement. But, in order to move forward, we’ll need more basic information. We can use that to pick a target to boycott. My criteria for choosing would be who makes the most pfa’s, and are there alternatives that they are not making? However, if we build an organization around this, it may prove that the easiest first target primarily sells direct to consumer products. In order to move into a high gear for action, we’ll need to find one or at most two first organizations we can put pressure on.

Once we know a little more, we should start writing opinions for social media, local news, and wherever we can to get the word out.

In th short run, we all need to try to avoid products with PFA’s whenever possible. For that alone, it is worth checking out the ChemSec website.