EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water
EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water
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EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water
The EPA had strong limits on its use until the Trump administration reversed them; now the agency wants to ban it
Why aren't we by default removing everything from water that isn't water or a short list of approved minerals?
Because the pollutors responsible for those chemicals have purchased the "conservative protection plan". They pay conservatives to allow them to continue to pollute. Part of that protection plan is classifying their deadly pollutants as "safe for consumption" to limit civil liabilities.
In short, conservatives did this.
In this country, apparently anything that’s not explicitly illegal or banned is fair game.
Fir real. Drinking water white list. Food white list. We are advanced enough as a society that we can handle that. If we wanted to.
Its probably crazy expensive to do that. Also, my guess is the processes of removing anything not H2O and minerals would also remove the minerals. So you'd have to do full distillation removing everything, then source and add in minerals after the distillation. The energy needed would be immense.
PFAS is seriously polluting the great lakes, too. There are recommended limits for how many fish you can safely consume in a year or month.