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EPA's plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a drop in the bucket

  • Written by Laurel Schaider, Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Hoosick Fall, N.Y. is one of many U.S. communities whose drinking water has been contaminated with PFOA or PFOS.AP Photo/Mike Groll, File

After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it would begin the process of regulating two drinking water contaminants,...

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