The House set deadlines for the EPA to implement drinking water regulations for the nonstick forever chemicals known as PFAS.
The bill approved Wednesday by a vote of 241 to 182 orders the EPA to designate two PFAS compounds as hazardous air and water pollutants, and set drinking water regulations for their use within two years of the bill becoming law. For years the agency has only established a non-enforceable health advisory level on the compounds in drinking water.
The compounds don’t break down in nature and build up the human body. A number of studies and investigations have tied the two compounds that would be designated as hazardous pollutants to cancer and other serious illnesses in recent years. “We don’t even have labeling of PFAS ingredients to allow consumers to protect themselves,” Pallone said. “We can’t delay any longer.”Nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources in California have been found to have traces of man-made chemicals linked to cancer.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers called the bill heavy-handed, unscientific and a “de facto ban on 9,252 chemicals.”
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