The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding some “forever chemicals” to the list of toxins that must be reported by drinking water utilities. That is going to require a lot of infrastructure investment.
“We are now in the process of establishing a drinking water standard for about six different PFAS,” Radhika Fox, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Water, told CNBC. PFAS is an abbreviation for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
“These per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, they’re made by different companies that take fluorine and they attach it to two carbon molecules and they stick around forever. That’s why they got the nickname ‘forever chemicals,’” explained Tom Neltner, senior director of safer chemicals at the Environmental Defense Fund.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding some “forever chemicals” to the list of toxins that must be reported by drinking water utilities. That is going to require a lot of infrastructure investment.
“We are now in the process of establishing a drinking water standard for about six different PFAS,” Radhika Fox, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Water, told CNBC. PFAS is an abbreviation for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Beginning [Nov. 30,](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-31/pdf/2023-23413.pdf#page=1) water quality reports due July 1, 2025, and onward must include information about the levels of PFAS above four parts per trillion in drinking water.
“These per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, they’re made by different companies that take fluorine and they attach it to two carbon molecules and they stick around forever. That’s why they got the nickname ‘forever chemicals,’” explained Tom Neltner, senior director of safer chemicals at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Full video: [https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/pfas-and-lead-lurk-in-us-drinking-water-is-tap-still-safe-to-drink.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/pfas-and-lead-lurk-in-us-drinking-water-is-tap-still-safe-to-drink.html)
Isn’t it great as a company to be able to pollute and have the taxpayers clean it all up.
Cool, better send more money to Israel then.