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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new plan to treat “Forever Chemicals” once widely used in water -resistant products that have been since then linked To cancer, reproductive health issues, and liver damage. However, the mysterious details that the Environmental Protection Agency shared so far have health and environmental advocates wondering whether the Environmental Protection Agency plan helps or delays procedures to maintain chemicals from drinking water.
The agency says it will launch new efforts to study chemicals and will develop new guidelines to reduce pollution from manufacturers. but advertisement On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency comes under Donald Trump’s attempts See dozens of other environmental protection. Especially, the agency did not decide whether it is planning to impose the current boundary on the amount of chemicals forever in drinking water. The agency will not say whether it is planning to defend a Biden era base To classify the two most common forms of PFAS As dangerous chemicals Giving priority to cleaning under the Federal Superfund Law.
“It looks like a lot of words without saying anything,” says Marie Grant, the non -profit campaign director of the campaign. “This reminds me of a lot of the previous Trump administration, as they had a PFAS road map after the PFAS road map without taking any actual steps to really move the needle.”
“A lot of words without saying anything.”
Lee Zealin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency at A. press release yesterday. “This is just the beginning of the work that we will do on PFAS to ensure that the Americans have the cleanest air, land and water.”
The Environmental Protection Agency said it would develop new Water pollution regulations For PFAs and metal finishes. Chemicals can be forever Used in the process of electrical paint From the “chrome” anti -corrosion application to the metal. The Environmental Protection Agency also says it will appoint “Agency” on PFAS initiatives, including new efforts to collect information on how to discover and destroy chemicals.
Industry groups A suitable suit On the national drinking water standards, on the pretext that the Environmental Protection Agency has exceeded its authority to formulate it. Similar commercial groups A suitable suit Against the Biden Administration on the appointment of the dangerous waste of PFAS, In the EPA, bad interpretation Superfund Law.
The announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday did not mention any of the lawsuit, saying only that it will “deal with the most important challenges of compliance” related to the national drinking water systems of chemicals forever. When asked before freedom Whether it is planning to defend PFAs in court, the spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency, Molly Vaslio, said in an e -mail that “the leadership of the new environmental protection agency is in the phase of the PFAS Drinking Base, the problems presented in the case in the current case around it, and the development of its position on how to move forward.” The agency may face the final dates to decide whether to defend drinking water and dangerous waste rules after requesting extensions in both cases.