Chemical companies and water utilities are challenging the EPA’s recent rule putting limits on six PFAS chemicals in drinking water.
Chemical companies and water utilities have sued the EPA after it issued rules limiting some PFAs, or"forever chemicals" that are linked to human health risks.Water utilities and chemical companies are challenging a recent rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that limits some PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” in drinking water.
“All they’ve done is name the bare legal basis, and then they say, ‘We're leaving the substance for later,” saysreferred to statements alleging the EPA didn’t rely on the best available science and underestimated the cost of the rule. Chemours said in a statement that the EPA used “unsound data” and “misuses its authority.” The EPA declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
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