Nantucket PFAS Action Group

📣 PFAS and Our Health: The Impact of “Forever Chemicals” Across Different Seasons of Life
📅 Today- Thursday, December 11, 2025 | 🕠 5:30 PM

We hope you can attend this community event TONIGHT with Dr. Tamarra James-Todd of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a leading national expert on PFAS and environmental reproductive health.

🎟 Attend:
📍 In Person: PSF Community Room, 4 Fairgrounds Road
💻 Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qp-zJzOWRsq6sKly0uZ54A
▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/QSWJ8eCFZhc

Dr. Tamarra James-Todd, Professor of Environmental Reproductive Epidemiology at Harvard Chan, leads the Environmental Reproductive Justice Lab studying how PFAS and other consumer chemicals affect reproductive and cardiometabolic health—especially in marginalized communities. She plays key roles in major NIH/CDC PFAS studies and served on the National Academies committee on PFAS testing. Her work has been featured in outlets like NYT Magazine. She holds degrees from Vanderbilt (BS), BU (MPH), and Columbia (PhD).

Join us at the PSF Community Room on December 11, or online: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qp-zJzOWRsq6sKly0uZ54A

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the residents of Toms Way for their courage in speaking up and sharing their story. Your voices have brought vital attention to the dangers of PFAS.

The story of Toms Way is a powerful reminder of what can happen when chemicals like PFAS are introduced into our environment, they don’t leave—they stay with us, affecting our health and future generations. This could happen in any town. Toms Way reminds us of the power of awareness and action and demonstrates the strength of communities coming together. By embracing safer alternatives and stopping the on going use and production of the many PFAS chemicals , we hope we can prevent future harm and what happened.

Rep Kate Hogan Julian Cyr Maura Healey Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts (PFFM) National PFAS Contamination Coalition News & Update Page Silent Spring Institute Clean Water Action Massachusetts The Boston Globe Nantucket Footprints

Residents of Toms Way, a small nook of a street not far from downtown Nantucket, learned that many of their wells had high levels of PFAS, a group of compounds known as “forever chemicals” that can leach into water systems and cause health problems, including cancer, liver damage, and thyroid disease.

On Sunday, four households filed a class action suit against the manufacturers of the chemicals. https://trib.al/JLeCsZP