White House Admin Plans to Delay, Eliminate Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in U.S. Drinking Water | PFAS are linked with cancer, fertility issues, and developmental delays in children — yet the E.P.A. has moved to weaken regulations designed to protect Americans
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-epa-forever-chemicals-pfas-drinking-water-1235339967/
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From the article: The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it plans to eliminate and postpone rules aimed at reducing “forever chemicals” contaminating drinking water across the country.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A), exposure to PFAS — a class of highly toxic, long-lasting compounds also known as “forever chemicals” — has been linked to cancer, decreased fertility in women, developmental effects in children, immune system issues, interference with the body’s natural hormones, and more. At least 45 percent of America’s tap water is estimated to have one or more types of PFAS.
Last year, former President Joe Biden set first-ever limits on PFAS, requiring water utilities to begin bringing down contamination levels of six types of PFAS chemicals — while setting a strict limit of four parts per trillion for two of those chemicals, PFOA and PFOS.
Despite the plethora of research warning against the dangers of forever chemicals in water, the E.P.A. said that while it will uphold the limits for those two types of PFAS, it will extend a deadline requiring water utilities to meet those limits to 2031. The E.P.A. also said it plans to eliminate and reconsider the limits for the other four chemicals — PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, and PFBS — listed.
“We are on a path to uphold the agency’s nationwide standards to protect Americans from PFOA and PFOS in their water,” Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement. “At the same time, we will work to provide common-sense flexibility in the form of additional time for compliance. This will support water systems across the country, including small systems in rural communities, as they work to address these contaminants.”
This is monstrous.
Isnt this exactly what RFK has been railing sgainst for a decade?
For once can they actually refer to theor own crazy representatives and see what the supposed expert thinks?
We’re the richest country on earth and won’t pay to make sure our water is clean?
Don’t these people realize money is meant to be used to improve people’s lives?
Feels like a dystopia where the regulators are just as evil as the villians. This is just a slow collapse, like air leaving a balloon
Why do Trump and the Republicans want to dismantle everything that keeps us safe and healthy?!
We can’t have fluoride in the water to protect our teeth but we permit chemicals that give you cancer, make you shoot blanks and make the kids stupid. Republican logic.
My desire to leave the US isn’t rooted in culture wars or a fear of being called slurs or names, rather it’s in the human drive for survival. I simply don’t want to be poisoned. I don’t want to increase my risk of being encumbered in a healthcare system that only wants to exploit me for profit, forced there by greedy corps who want to poison me for profit. And now the Feds bought and paid for see no problem with doubling down on this BS.
But God fucking forbid that I have fluoride in my water
Do Republicans know that they will be drinking this same water?
It basically means that our teeth will be rotted out of our heads and will be running around with a lot more plastic in our balls.
Guys its ok. It was women having careers and porn thats the cause of low birth rates. /s
Glad RFKjr is doing his job so remarkably well! I fell better already.
Republicans and maga voters out here ruining the water supply for the entire population just to “own the libs.”
Jesus fucking Christ, everyday with this fucking administration is just how much faster can we devolve this country back to the fucking stone age.
Meanwhile, they’re removing Flouride in tap water because 25 years ago, Alex Jones made up a lie that it turned frogs gay
Continuing the streak of doing the worst and most evil possible thing they could do in any situation.
We are so lucky leaded gasoline was banned before the culture war got in full swing. If it happened today conservatives would be drinking it on stream to own the libs
The republican plan has always been “fuck the environment, rich people need more money”. It’s just in turbo mode under this administration.