The EPA's Proposed Regulation of PFAS in Drinking Water

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The EPA said in March that they are going to regulate six PFAS chemicals in drinking water. When finalized this proposed regulation will require public water systems to monitor these chemicals. There's a lot of controversy over how to regulate these things whether you should just look at a few that we know are bad or look at all of them assuming that they're all bad.

The chemical manufacturer 3M will pay $10 billion to settle claims it contaminated drinking water with “forever chemicals.” Good thing we already spoke with Barbara Moran, WBUR’s climate and environmental correspondent, who explained these non-stick chemicals that stick around forever.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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