Kelly Coleman: Protections for toxic pollution victims

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Kelly Coleman, who is program director for Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, based in western Massachusetts, and board chair of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. She grew up in Vermont and now lives in Brattleboro with her husband and two children.
The discovery of PFOA in Bennington wells was a wake-up call: Vermonters are not immune to the health and environmental dangers posed by toxic chemicals. And, likewise Vermonters should not h