Tell Your Legislators to Keep Amara's Law Intact
The legislative session ends on Monday, May 18th. And unfortunately, at the last minute, behind closed doors, a decision was made to extend the timeline for reporting PFAS until July of 2027. This is an unnecessary giveaway to big business simply because they don’t want to comply with this life saving law.
Minnesotans were clear when Amara’s Law passed: our health, our water, and our kids’ futures matter more than corporate profits and certainly more than cynical delay tactics . Implementation officially began on January 1, 2025 — and the law is working as intended. It is providing certainty, protecting drinking water, and putting public health first.
Yet now, powerful industry interests — including parts of the cookware and manufacturing sectors — are pushing lawmakers for delays and special exemptions that would weaken the law and reopen the door to toxic exposure.
The Facts:
- Every day, we learn more about how dangerous and damaging PFAS pollution is to our bodies and our communities. Minnesota led the world in passing Amara’s Law, and the world is looking to us for the path to end PFAS pollution. Weakening and delaying Amara’s Law is not just a Minnesota issue; it would send a worldwide signal.
- Consumers deserve to know if forever chemicals are in the products they buy and use. The reporting requirements in Amara’s Law are needed because currently consumers may be exposed to forever chemicals without their knowledge.
- Requiring manufacturers to disclose if PFAS forever chemicals are in their products is not only reasonable, it’s shocking that they haven’t already done so. Turning off the tap of forever chemicals is only possible when we know what products they are in.
- We must move quickly to phase out PFAS usage. Every day we delay adds more to forever chemical pollution. These costs are imposed on people and local governments, which have to pay millions of dollars to remove forever chemicals from drinking water.
- Each delay has a cascading effect. There are a series of deadlines in Amara’s Law that build off of each other. Delaying the reporting requirements now can be used later to justify delaying the elimination of PFAS in Amara’s Law.
- The MPCA has already delayed the reporting requirement by nine months and has the authority to do so again if necessary. However, MPCA is clear that the reporting system (called PRISM) for PFAS is already working, and manufacturers are already using it.
This language is being considered in the legislature right now. Send a message to your legislators today, and urge them to keep Amara’s Law intact, with no delays!