Lend Your Voice to Get Toxic Chemicals Out of Our Waters

Waterways that provide drinking water and habitat for wildlife like the belted kingfisher are contaminated with highly toxic chemicals known as PFAS. These chemicals—known as “forever chemicals” because they persist in the environment for a very long time—expose people and wildlife to serious health risks, including cancers and impacts to the reproductive and immune systems. Contamination of our waters by these “forever chemicals” is widespread, affecting drinking water for millions of people across the country.

However, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing drinking water standards that would provide long overdue federal protections against six types of PFAS in our nation’s drinking water.

Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency in support of protections against six types of toxic chemicals in our nation’s drinking water.

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Re: Proposed PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation Rulemaking Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2022-0114

Dear Administrator Regan,

Thank you for taking this historic step to keep our drinking water safe from PFAS contamination. For decades, PFAS chemicals have contaminated both public and private drinking water supplies across the country. PFAS contamination exposes communities to serious health risks, including cancers, impacts to the immune and reproductive systems, and other harms. The EPA’s proposed drinking water standards would provide long overdue federal protections against six types of highly toxic PFAS. I strongly support this proposed rule and urge EPA to move swiftly to finalize health-protective standards to reduce PFAS in our drinking water.

The PFAS crisis is widespread, contaminating the blood of humans, fish, and wildlife worldwide. Communities of color and low-income communities are particularly impacted by PFAS exposure, where health impacts are often compounded because these communities tend to face cumulative effects from multiple environmental injustices and public health hazards.

EPA’s proposal would significantly reduce exposure to PFAS in our drinking water for millions of people by setting strong, science-based drinking water standards for six types of PFAS. While this proposal is an important first step towards addressing PFAS exposure, it is critical that EPA also expedite efforts to prevent these chemicals from entering our waters and environment in the first place, before it even reaches our taps. This includes regulating industrial discharges of PFAS into surface waters, addressing PFAS in permits consistent with EPA’s 2022 Clean Water Act guidance, cleaning up PFAS contaminated sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and preventing current and future use of PFAS chemicals.

I urge you to quickly finalize and implement the proposed PFAS drinking water standards rule to begin federally regulating PFAS in drinking water.

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