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\n\tThe Trump administration has\u00a0announced\u00a0what it is calling \u201ca major step forward\u201d in the fight against a class of toxic chemicals called\u00a0PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Extended exposure to PFAS, often referred to as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d because they can persist indefinitely in the environment,\u00a0has been linked\u00a0to various cancers, autoimmune diseases, and other harms.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lauded Donald Trump as the first president who is \u201ccompletely committed\u201d to removing forever chemicals, which are found at unsafe levels in tap water in\u00a0some 80 percent of congressional districts\u00a0and lurk in the blood of\u00a097 percent of Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut what Kennedy considers a step forward looks like a big step back to most of those who have long kept an eye on the issue. That\u2019s because the Trump administration is unraveling key parts of the PFAS limits\u00a0approved by Joe Biden\u2019s administration\u00a0in 2024, which are the first and only regulations to put limits on PFAS in drinking water in the nation\u2019s history. Restrictions on four substances in the PFAS class would be rescinded entirely, while water utilities would be given two additional years to comply with limits for two other substances. The Environmental Protection Agency first\u00a0signaled its intention\u00a0to make these changes last year, just a few months after Trump took office. The changes will be finalized after a 60-day public comment period expires.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tSecretary Kennedy, who is known for his pledge to \u201cMake America Healthy Again,\u201d turned attention instead to the EPA\u2019s recent announcement of\u00a0$1 billion in grant funding\u00a0for small and disadvantaged communities to detect and eliminate PFAS. \u201cWe have a president who has made a greater financial commitment than any president in U.S. history,\u201d Kennedy said. But the commitment was not exactly Trump\u2019s to make: The $1 billion comes from an appropriation made by Congress in 2021, when Joe Biden was president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tPFAS has been used in a wide variety of products, including\u00a0industrial firefighting foams, for decades. As evidence of health harms linked to these substances has mounted, many manufacturers have developed new types of PFAS that have comparatively shorter lifespans. But this new generation of chemicals, of which there are thousands of members,\u00a0may also cause adverse health impacts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Biden administration had at least set health protective limits for six of these chemicals out of the literally thousands that have been registered for use in the marketplace,\u201d said John Rumpler, clean water director for the environmental advocacy nonprofit Environment America. \u201cNow the EPA is walking back from even that small step toward protecting our drinking water.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, the administration tried to rationalize the proposed roll backs by saying that Biden-era PFAS limits were approved in a rush that would have made them vulnerable to ongoing legal challenges. Water utilities and chemical companies have sued the EPA over its PFAS rules, arguing that the regulations are procedurally flawed, financially onerous, and require compliance on timelines that are too tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the EPA has itself sought to undermine the limits since Trump took office last year,\u00a0asking a federal appeals court\u00a0to summarily vacate Biden-era restrictions on four types of PFAS last fall. The EPA has since stopped defending the standards in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThis is about being realistic,\u201d EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said at an event alongside Kennedy last Monday. \u201cA deadline you cannot physically meet is not a public health protection.\u201d He pointed to the fact that technology capable of removing the chemicals is improving and may eventually bring costs down for utilities burdened by the price of removing PFAS from tap water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement provided to Grist, the EPA said that \u201cthe previous administration\u2019s rule set deadlines many water systems simply could not meet \u2014 risking costly violations that punish communities without removing a single part per trillion from anyone\u2019s tap.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, the EPA has offered little in the way of a regulatory substitute for the limits it is removing. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything new here,\u201d said Jared Thompson, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental protection group that is one of several groups defending the Biden-era limits in ongoing litigation brought by chemical companies.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry challengers and the water industry challengers who are saying that these standards are not appropriate,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tZeldin asserted that the EPA is going to \u201cdo it right\u201d this time, and the EPA\u2019s statement to Grist said that \u201cit is entirely possible the result will be more stringent requirements\u201d once the four PFAS substances whose limits are being rescinded are reviewed a second time.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut some outside experts think Zeldin is already doing it wrong. The Safe Drinking Water Act, which Congress passed in 1974, has a provision that states that the EPA can\u2019t weaken drinking water standards once they\u2019ve been set.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are going to be legal challenges,\u201d said Richard L. Revesz, dean emeritus at the New York University School of Law and former administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under Biden. \u201cThey\u2019ll have to give reasons and those reasons are very likely to be inadequate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nEditor\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong>The Natural Resources Defense Council is an advertiser with Grist. Advertisers have no role in Grist\u2019s editorial decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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