• EPA won't limit two toxic chemicals which contaminate drinking water
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/28/epa-toxic-chemicals-drinking-water-1124797 The Trump administration will not set a drinking water limit for two toxic chemicals that are contaminating millions of Americans' tap water, two sources familiar with the forthcoming decision told POLITICO. The expected move is yet another sign of the administration's reluctance to aggressively deal with the chemicals, which have been used for decades in products such as Teflon-coated cookware and military firefighting foam and are present in the bloodstreams of an estimated 98 percent of Americans. EPA's decision means the chemicals will remain unregulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to sources familiar with a still-unreleased draft plan that acting administrator Andrew Wheeler signed off on in late December. The chemicals, known as PFOA and PFOS, have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, hypertension and other ailments. Major chemical companies like 3M as well as the Defense Department would face billions of dollars in liability from aggressive efforts to regulate and clean up the chemical, which has contaminated groundwater near hundreds of military bases and chemical plants. While EPA has decided against a drinking water limit, the draft chemical plan includes a decision to list those two chemicals as hazardous under the Superfund law, according to the two sources, a move would help force polluters to pay for cleanup.
can't go around forcing companies to pay for the massive costs associated with poisoning literally everybody in the country, that'd put them out of business.
Or they'd move business to China because China doesn't care as much.
people are just getting soft, back in my day we used to play on giant hills of asbestos and now they banned that the kids are just sitting inside playing thier nintendos! It just builds character and stops them from being weak!
Can't get old and weak if you die by 30.
china already makes all the world's petrochems. look up a company called Fluorotech USA, totally massive operation in china
They're putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin people dead
I don't know if Europe is just so well off with drinking water, but last November I was in the US for two weeks, traveling through Utah, Nevada and California and no matter where you go I could taste high amounts of chlorine in the tap water. It was bad enough to the point I could taste chlorine in my Sprite with ice cubes, and egg drop soup concentrate that was watered down with tap water. We just ended up drinking bottled water most of the time, even when we were staying in the hotels.
we do chlorinate our drinking water its not the same as what's going on here. We might use more in the US than you're used to.
You finally made me stop and think for a second to look it up, and turns out the Netherlands is one of the few who don't use chlorine for the water treatment anymore. I've never knew that chlorine was also used to clean the water in some countries until I was in the US, so the concept was pretty fascinating although weird for me.
it might taste like pool water to someone who isn't used to it. Where I live has lots of limestone so everywhere else I go tastes like swamp water because we have almost no sulphur in our tap water, especially florida which has a lot of swamp water.
There isn't a lot of data on the human effects of the PFAS chemicals. We have only in recent years started testing for them at my lab, its still quite new. But regardless of that, we have limits of contamination here in Australia and the EPA needs to impose limits.
On top of other comments about chlorination, in major cities in Utah, (and I assume Nevada too) because we're so dry, our water sources aren't prestine nice tasting well-water. If you head to like Centerville or Park City, you'll likely run into water that tastes much more acceptable. Specifically SLC's water tastes horrible, West Valley is acceptable.
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