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Clean drinking water is at risk nationwide: Speak up to protect PFAS rules

Two years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from dangerous, cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). It was a small first step to protecting us from these substances, but a good one.

But now, the Trump administration claims these rules were instituted unlawfully and must be rescinded. The EPA is taking comments NOW through July 20 on its illegal plan to reverse these rules. 

Speak up today: Use our form to tell the EPA to protect our families and communities from toxic chemicals in our water!

These federal rules limit the allowed concentration of six of the most common PFAS found in drinking water. All of these pose a risk to human health individually, and they're even more dangerous in combination.

Rescinding the rules isn't just a bad idea, it would violate the Clean Water Act’s anti-rollback rule, which prohibits replacing a clean water standard with anything weaker than what's currently in place.

Join us in speaking up today: Tell the EPA to follow the law and fulfill its mission to protect our families and communities by keeping these important rules in place!


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I am writing to urge you to retain the EPA's drinking water regulations for PFAS enacted in 2024. Rescinding these rules would not only violate federal law, but mark a huge step backward in the agency's duty to protect Americans from environmental threats, leaving us exposed to dangerous toxins every time we take a sip of water. The Clean Water Act prohibits the replacement of a clean water standard with anything weaker than existing regulations. The EPA has not demonstrated its intention to replace these PFAS regulations with stronger regulatory standards, making this rescission a violation of the anti-rollback provision. The regulations enacted in 2024 were a good start to protecting people from PFAS in their water supply, but stronger and more comprehensive protections are what’s necessary, not removing what we already have in place. I ask you not only to keep the current regulations in place, but to add additional meaningful rules that are protective, science-based, and enforceable. As a North Carolinian resident, I have seen firsthand the impact of pollution from "forever chemicals" on our communities, agricultural lands, and the broader environment. More than 3.5 million North Carolinians are exposed to unsafe levels of PFAS in their drinking water supplies – contamination that is difficult and expensive to remove. The 2024 rules were a good first step, and should be expanded – not rescinded. Please obey the law and uphold your duty by keeping these rules intact.

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