Those impacted by PFAS contamination react to new rules [Video]

“The final rule will reduce PFAS exposure for approximately 100 million people, prevent thousands of deaths, and reduce tens of thousands of serious illnesses,” said the EPA in a press release.

Under the new regulations, all states will not be required to test for PFAS in drinking water and there will not be enforceable limits on six kinds of PFAS chemicals.

The new acceptable maximum for PFOA and PFOA, the two most hazardous PFAS, is now 4.0 parts per trillion. 

“I learned about this in 2017. My husband had passed the year before of liver cancer, and it was the next year that I learned that my groundwater was contaminated with some of the highest rates of drinking water that have been seen,” said Sandy Wynn-Stelt, co-chair …