Your drinking water could contain fewer hazardous ‘forever chemicals’ under new federal rules [Video]

The Biden administration is cracking down on toxic “forever chemicals” that are widespread in America’s tap water, food, and household products.

The EPA on Wednesday finalized the first-ever limits on levels of PFAS in drinking water, putting the chemicals in the same class of other well-known pollutants like lead, arsenic, and nitrate.

PFAS are called “forever chemicals” because they don’t biodegrade and instead accumulate in the environment and our bodies over time, creating a hazard to human health. Peer-reviewed studies have linked them to some cancers, decreased fertility, reduced vaccine response, high cholesterol, and developmental delays in children.

“It is easily the most consequential and difficult decision to protect drinking water in the past 30 years,” Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, told reporters.

He added that the watchdog group started researching PFAS more than two decades ago and found PFAS everywhere they tested, including in umbilical cord blood.

The chemicals …