Bipartisan senators propose forcing EPA to set drinking water standard for 'forever chemicals'
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday filed an amendment that would force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set a drinking water standard for so-called forever chemicals.
Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) proposed new EPA rules regarding the chemicals known as PFAS, which has been linked to cancer and other health impacts and has contaminated water in at least 43 states.
The chemicals are often referred to as “forever chemicals” because of the time it takes them to break down.
The EPA has said it will decide by the end of the year whether it will set drinking water standards for PFAS. The amendment, filed as part of the annual defense policy bill, would put pressure on the agency to speed up that timeline, adopting a drinking water standard within two years for two specific types of PFAS.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/448659-congress-would-force-epa-to-regulate-harmful-forever-chemicals-in
Article doesn't say where Mitch McConnell stands on this.
