{"id":10471,"date":"2026-04-20T05:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/in-focus-one-marinette-city-council-leaders-hopes-for-pfas-legislation-spectrum-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:32:54","slug":"in-focus-one-marinette-city-council-leaders-hopes-for-pfas-legislation-spectrum-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/in-focus-one-marinette-city-council-leaders-hopes-for-pfas-legislation-spectrum-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: One Marinette City Council leader\u2019s hopes for PFAS legislation &#8211; Spectrum News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/app\">Learn More<\/a><br \/>             <a class=\"continue-link\" href=\"#\">Continue in Browser<\/a>         <br \/>Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.<br \/>Please enter a valid zipcode.<br \/>Save<br \/>This week on \u201cIn Focus,\u201d we explore new laws relating to PFAS in Wisconsin.<br \/>PFAS, or \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d have been an ongoing issue for the state for a number of years. Communities have been working to get these chemicals out of their water, but debates over funding have stalled in Madison until this year. New legislation was signed into law earlier this month, aimed at starting the cleanup and restoration process.<br \/>Doug Oitzinger serves on the Board of Directors for the group Save Our H-2-0. He also serves on the Marinette City Council. Oitzinger joined Spectrum News 1 to discuss PFAS issues in his community and what he hopes the new legislation will do to address it in communities all across the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNY2M1NzR2UlR5aUI5YnZlUHZhT1YxcE1vU1k5QWM1dWx1cjg4cGFKVXpiS3A2Tm41dUNweF9CSU1jUEVzT3dWc3RnbEhqNUJCLXM1VmV1Z2I1cUhSTk1hYUtBYy15REtFVFJ4MVhWN2dUZk84LTlqMEdMZ3JpbTQ3TFkxSEhhR2tSSWJQNldWcFcwU2h1Nkc4OVo1QWVreHY5NWNNbXpSRHZ5bmlR?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Continue in Browser Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.Please enter a valid zipcode.SaveThis week on \u201cIn Focus,\u201d we explore new laws relating to PFAS in Wisconsin.PFAS, or \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d have been an ongoing issue for the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}