[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Over 100 groups press Biden administration to set ‘forever chemicals’ drinking water standards without further delay"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Environmental Working Group
January 19, 2023

Over 100 groups press Biden administration to set ‘forever chemicals’ drinking water standards without further delay

WASHINGTON – More than 100 community and environmental organizations, including the Environmental Working Group, today urged the Biden administration to swiftly propose standards to protect drinking water from the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

The standards, promised last year, have thus far been delayed. The administration committed to proposing enforceable drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two widespread and harmful PFAS, by fall 2022. 

The Environmental Protection Agency sent the proposal for mandatory White House Office of Management and Budget review on October 6, 2022. But the proposal still has not been released to the public.

The coalition in a January 19th letter urged top administration officials to release the Safe Drinking Water, or SDWA, standards “without further delay.”

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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/statement/2023/01/over-100-groups-press-biden-administration-set-forever-chemicals

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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