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Big cities more often find 'forever chemicals' in their drinking water, but some small towns are reporting eye-popping levels ...
Several Greater Cincinnati water supplies were found to have high levels of forever chemicals. Find out what that means.
Over the past three years, the EPA has tested U.S. drinking water systems for forever chemicals. Here's where chemicals were ...
What the EPA's partial rollback of the 'forever chemical' drinking water rule means - The Environmental Protection Agency says it will roll back limits on several types of what are known as ...
“EPA’s plan to retain but delay standards for two legacy 'forever chemicals' may offer modest consolation to some, but throwing out protections against four others will be devastating,” he ...
Opinion The EPA is trying to regulate 6 forever chemicals. Just 10,000 to go. We’re going need a better way to tackle PFASs.
The Biden administration designated two pervasive pollutants as “hazardous substances” Friday — making it easier to put companies that dumped them on the hook for cleanup costs. The move by the ...
The EPA has limits on only six types, which Southerland says act as “surrogates” for the 15,000 other forever chemicals that could show up in drinking water.
The EPA designated two forever chemicals as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds. (AP Photo: Joshua A. Bickel) ...
The six that the EPA is restricting "have had many animal and, in many cases, human studies, so [the EPA] feels confident that they have estimated the safe levels of these chemicals," says ...
EPA designates 2 forever chemicals as hazardous substances, eligible for Superfund cleanup by MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press - 04/19/24 10:42 AM ET ...
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances.