The  Environmental Protection Agency  on Thursday proposed including microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could eventually lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency is responding to Americans who have worried about plastics and pharmaceuticals in their drinking water.
The gesture also aims to hand a win to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement, which for months has pressured Zeldin to further crack down on environmental contaminants.
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