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# EPA Imposes Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

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## Video: EPA Imposes Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

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_Published 2024-04-10. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set its first-ever national, legally enforceable limits on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” in drinking water on Wednesday._


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## Transcript

You know since day one as administrator, I committed to embedding EJ into the DNA of EPA for too long our communities black round indigenous and low-income have disproportionately suffered from bad air quality high levels of water pollution and the worsening impacts of climate change. The simple fact is all people no matter the color of their skin or how much money they have in their pockets deserve clean air to breathe clean water to drink and a safe place to live away from environmental hazards and hard and that's why we launched journey to Justice. We are issuing a final technology standard that will eliminate more than six hundred six thousand a toxic air pollution from these facilities each year.

I'm proud to say that we're advancing President Biden's cancer moonshot a commitment to ending cancer in this country as we know it.

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