Biden administration’s plan to curtail toxic ‘forever chemicals’
Al Jazeera
The Environmental Protection Agency laid out a strategy to limit pollution from a cluster of chemicals known as PFAS that are increasingly showing up in drinking water and food.
The Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams.
Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said it is taking a series of actions to limit pollution from a cluster of long-lasting chemicals known as PFAS that are increasingly turning up in public drinking water systems, private wells and even food.
The plan is intended to restrict PFAS from being released into the environment, accelerate clean-up of PFAS-contaminated sites such as military bases and increase investments in research to learn more about where PFAS are found and how their spread can be prevented.
