{"id":27774,"date":"2025-05-14T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27774"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:25:26","slug":"trump-administration-to-weaken-some-limits-on-pfas-in-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27774","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration to Weaken Some Limits on PFAS in Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The E.P.A. said it would maintain limits on the two most common PFAS chemicals found in tap water but roll back rules for four others.<\/p>\n

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The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it would uphold drinking water standards for two harmful \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d present in the tap water of millions of Americans. But it said it would delay deadlines to meet those standards and roll back limits on four other related chemicals.<\/p>\n

Known as forever chemicals because of their virtually indestructible nature, PFAS are a class of thousands of chemicals used widely in everyday products like nonstick cookware, water-repellent clothing and stain-resistant carpets, as well as in firefighting foams.<\/p>\n

Exposure to PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, has been associated with metabolic disorders, decreased fertility in women, developmental delays in children and increased risk of some prostate, kidney and testicular cancers, according to the E.P.A<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had, for the first time, required water utilities to start bringing down levels of six types of PFAS chemicals to near zero. He set a particularly stringent limit of four parts per trillion for two of those chemicals, called PFOA and PFOS, which are most commonly found in drinking water systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration said it would uphold the limits for those two types of PFAS, but would delay a deadline for water utilities to meet those limits by two years, to 2031.<\/p>\n

The E.P.A. said it would rescind the limits for the other four chemicals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are on a path to uphold the agency\u2019s nationwide standards to protect Americans from PFOA and PFOS in their water,\u201d Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement. \u201cAt the same time, we will work to provide common-sense flexibility in the form of additional time for compliance,\u201d he said. \u201cEPA will also continue to use its regulatory and enforcement tools to hold polluters accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The E.P.A. said it would maintain limits on the two most common PFAS chemicals found in tap water but roll back rules for four others.The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it would uphold drinking water standards for two harmful \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d present in the tap water of millions of Americans. But it said it would delay deadlines to meet those standards and roll back limits on four other related chemicals.Known as forever chemicals because of their virtually indestructible nature, PFAS are a class of thousands of chemicals used widely in everyday products like nonstick cookware, water-repellent clothing and stain-resistant carpets, as well as in firefighting foams.Exposure to PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, has been associated with metabolic disorders, decreased fertility in women, developmental delays in children and increased risk of some prostate, kidney and testicular cancers, according to the E.P.A.President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had, for the first time, required water utilities to start bringing down levels of six types of PFAS chemicals to near zero. He set a particularly stringent limit of four parts per trillion for two of those chemicals, called PFOA and PFOS, which are most commonly found in drinking water systems.The Trump administration said it would uphold the limits for those two types of PFAS, but would delay a deadline for water utilities to meet those limits by two years, to 2031.The E.P.A. said it would rescind the limits for the other four chemicals.\u201cWe are on a path to uphold the agency\u2019s nationwide standards to protect Americans from PFOA and PFOS in their water,\u201d Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement. \u201cAt the same time, we will work to provide common-sense flexibility in the form of additional time for compliance,\u201d he said. \u201cEPA will also continue to use its regulatory and enforcement tools to hold polluters accountable.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27776,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27777,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions\/27777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}