A Dangerous Chemical May Be In Your Tap Water — But The Trump Admin Doesn’t Want You To Know That
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The chemical can be found in materials including firefighting foam — and the EPA has seemingly delayed a report on it.
The Trump administration is delaying the publication of a report about a harmful “forever chemical” known as perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, discovered in 28 states’ tap water.
The news was first reported by ProPublica in early October, a few weeks after the Union of Concerned Scientists posted about the unpublished report by experts within the Environmental Protection Agency, calling it “yet another attack on [scientific integrity] and our health.”
ProPublica found that the final PFNA report has been finalized and ready to publish since April, although the EPA told ProPublica that it is not yet final.
PFNA is a type of PFAS, which are also referred to as “forever chemicals.” These chemicals are man-made and “don’t behave like your usual organic pollutants that we know how to treat and what to expect from them,” said Carla Ng, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
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