The AAAS EPI Center and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus will host a series of roundtables at the beginning of December to convene decisionmakers to discuss the current body of scientific evidence concerning PFAS contamination of drinking water, how that evidence can inform policy-making to mitigate the impacts, and priorities for protecting communities with contaminated drinking water supplies.

This “energy ceiling" is 2.5 times a human’s rate of metabolism at rest, or roughly 4,000 kilocalories.