FILE – Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announces the Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams during an event at N.C. State University, Oct. 18, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File) FILE – Environmental Protection Agency Water Director Radhika Fox poses for a portrait in Washington, Friday, July 2, 2021. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) FILE – Michael Gray-Lewis, a Jackson State engineering graduate questions EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, center, Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, and Radhika Fox, assistant administrator for water with the EPA, on efforts to deliver a sustainable water system for Jackson residents, Nov. 15, 2022, at Jackson State University. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
