Der Administrator des Weißen Hauses plant zu verzögern, die Grenzen für Forever Chemicals in US -Trinkwasser zu beseitigen | PFAs sind mit Krebs, Fruchtbarkeitsproblemen und Entwicklungsverzögerungen bei Kindern verbunden. Die EPA hat sich jedoch dazu veranlasst, die Vorschriften zum Schutz der Amerikaner zu schwächen

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.”

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