EPA Standards Miss Many Chemicals in Drinking Water, Study Says

By Kris Maher | The Wall Street Journal | April 12, 2023

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"Authors of a new study say that the federal government is likely underestimating the extent of “forever chemicals” contamination in drinking water nationally.

The Natural Resources Defense Council study illustrates a central challenge of regulating a group of hundreds of chemicals that were used widely for decades and don’t break down in the environment: identifying which of those chemicals have tainted drinking-water sources."

Topics:

• ChemicalsPFAS
• Environment
• Wildlife
• Remediation
• Filtration
• ImpactDrinking water
• ImpactDrinking waterPrivate wells
• Affected community
• Health