Die Trump-Regierung schlägt vor, die Regeln aus der Biden-Ära, die Wassersysteme dazu verpflichten, bis 2029 sechs PFAS-Typen zu filtern, zurückzunehmen und vier ganz abzuschaffen. Das NRDC schätzt, dass mindestens 73 Millionen Amerikaner bereits Wasser mit unsicheren PFAS-Werten trinken, die mit Krebs und anderen chronischen Erkrankungen in Zusammenhang stehen.
https://health.yahoo.com/article/less-microplastics-more-forever-chemicals-making-sense-of-the-mixed-messages-around-drinking-water-235541375.html
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The timing is strange given the EPA simultaneously announced action on microplastics, which are far less studied than PFAS in terms of confirmed health harms. The two year extension alone could matter a lot given that PFAS can take over eight years just to halve in the human body once exposure stops.
MAHA is nada
They’re basically doing everything they can to destroy the environment so the US will be a toxic flaming hellscape where nothing will grow so we’ll have no choice but to submit to billionaire rule to survive, after they’ve ethnically exterminated most of us of course.
I really wish people would stop sitting around watching while they finish building the walls of the abattoir around us.
gutting health protections for americans,cancelling scientific studies,putting a complete moron in charge of our health agencies,Putin didn’t even have to use a single bullet to destroy america,he just got his lackey Trump to do it
America first right?
He is the destroyer of all things…
What are they going to do when we’re dead?
Hey, he got his billions! Now it’s Right wing Americas time to take the little scraps away from the general population…..
One way of lowering the burden on Social Security.
This post leaves out a massive amount of context to twist a boring legal reality into a scary headline.
The „why“ behind this decision comes down to how administrative law works. The original 2024 rules on PFAS were being hammered with aggressive lawsuits from the chemical industry. The current EPA looked at those rules and argued that the previous administration cut corners and skipped mandatory procedural steps when rushing them out.
If they just left the rules as is, they were almost guaranteed to get completely struck down by a federal judge. If that happened, corporate lawyers would win a permanent victory, and we’d be left with zero federal PFAS protections.
So instead of letting the courts vaporize the whole framework, the EPA is doing a strategic reset. They pulled back the limits on 4 of the chemicals specifically to restart the rulemaking process from scratch and build a legal foundation that is actually airtight. They even explicitly stated that the new rules might end up being just as strict or stricter, they just have to do it by the book this time. For the two most dangerous PFAS chemicals, the strict limits are still fully in place, they just pushed the compliance deadline back a couple of years so local water plants actually have time to build the expensive filtration infrastructure needed to comply.
It’s completely fair to criticize the temporary regulatory gap this do over creates, but framing a defensive legal maneuver to protect long term regulations as if it’s handing corporations permission to poison your water is straight up misinformation. It uses real headlines to build a fake narrative.