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EPA moves to allow more PFAS in drinking water

The EPA is moving to weaken its own limits on forever chemicals flowing from your kitchen sink

John Rumpler

Environment America

By 2027, a federal rule will require your local water utility to ensure that the water they send to your home has no more than trace amounts of six toxic chemicals that could damage your liver, weaken your immune system and trigger thyroid cancer, among other maladies.

Except now, the current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving to weaken that rule—including rescinding the limits for four of those PFAS chemicals and delaying limits on the other two. Here’s the story:

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The result is PFAS pollution. As of July 2025, the most recent data from the EPA indicates that 158 million people are now at risk of drinking PFAS contaminated water. The problem could be even more widespread: One estimate suggests that two types of PFAS—PFOS and PFOS—have likely contaminated the drinking water of 200 million people across the U.S. So unless water utilities are required to remove these toxic PFAS, they are likely to be in the water flowing from your kitchen sink for years to come.

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Unfortunately, the current EPA is now moving to roll back these PFAS limits. Ordinarily, such a step would require the agency to go through a formal rule-making process where it would be subject to scientific and public scrutiny. Moreover, the EPA would have to somehow overcome the Safe Drinking Water Act’s prohibition on weakening drinking water standards.

But wait there's more!

Trump EPA Finalizes Weak Rule to Reduce Dangerous Air Pollution from New Gas-Burning Power Plants, Ignores Health Benefits and Lives Saved from Pollution Reduction

January 12, 2026

Environmental Defense Fund

The Trump EPA has unveiled a final rule under the Clean Air Act that revises emission limits for dangerous nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution from new gas-burning turbines used in power plants and industrial facilities.

Emissions of NOx form smog and soot, which is harmful to human health and linked to serious heart and lung diseases. EPA’s final NOx rule is substantially less protective than the proposal for the rule issued under the Biden Administration, and for some gas plants is even weaker than the protections that have been in place since 2006. The rule also includes a carve-out that allows certain temporary gas turbines, which can be used at data centers, to pollute more NOx than other sources.

To make matters worse, EPA states in the final rule that it will no longer estimate the economic value of health benefits from reducing NOx and other types of health-harming pollution for Clean Air Act rules going forward. This means that in issuing these standards, EPA will now ignore the value of lives saved, hospital visits avoided, and prevented lost work and school days due to air pollution-related illnesses. This harmful and irrational decision abandons EPA’s time-tested practice under administrations of both parties of undertaking rigorous economic analysis to evaluate both the benefits and costs of clean air protections. It will allow EPA to effectively ignore the health impacts of future decisions related to air pollution and air quality protections.

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