More than 100 million Americans are expected to benefit, including at least 660,000 in Illinois who get their drinking water from a utility that violates the new standards for PFAS.
The downtown Chicago skyline can be seen beyond the Harrison-Dever water intake crib in Lake Michigan on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Following through on a campaign promise, President Joe Biden’s administration is limiting toxic forever chemicals in drinking water for the first time, a sweeping policy change intended to protect Americans from widespread threats to human health and the environment.
These versions of the chemicals build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Forever chemicals end up in lakes, rivers and wells after flushing through sewage treatment plants and spreading from factory smokestacks. They also leach out of products such as carpets, clothing, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, fast-food wrappers, firefighting foam, food packaging, microwave popcorn bags, paper plates, pizza boxes, rain jackets and ski wax.
Cook’s group has studied PFAS and advocated for federal action since the early 2000s. He noted forever chemicals have been found in the bodies of nearly every American. Babies are born with PFAS in their blood. One study commissioned by the association estimated that complying with EPA regulations will cost water utilities $3.8 billion a year, far more than the agency projects. Another questioned whether limiting PFAS in drinking water will protect public health.
DuPont and 3M earlier paid nearly $2 billion combined to settle other PFAS-related lawsuits without accepting responsibility for contaminated drinking water or diseases suffered by people exposed to the chemicals. The companies have long maintained forever chemicals are not harmful at levels typically found in people.
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