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Actor Mark Ruffalo: ‘Amazing’ that PFAS chemicals still aren’t regulated
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
Posted Apr 13, 2021
Foam coats the Kalamazoo River at the city of Kalamazoo Water Reclamation Plant (KWRP) outfall in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Nov. 8, 2020. An AFFF foam spill at the Kalamazoo Airport recently caused a spike in PFAS chemicals discharged to the river.Garret Ellison | MLive
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WASHINGTON, DC Actor Mark Ruffalo lent some celebrity heft on Tuesday to an announcement by Michigan Congressional delegates about the reintroduction of legislation that would force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to start regulating PFAS chemicals in drinking water and officially designate them as hazardous substances.
April 14, 2021 , AWWA convened a panel of experts led by co-chairs John Graham and Cary Coglianese. Graham, a professor at the Indiana University, was administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush. Coglianese is a law and political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the director of the Penn Program on Regulation. The expert panel concluded regulatory actions should simultaneously account for vulnerable people’s access to affordable water service and the need to protect their health. This conclusion is important because when cost-benefit analyses are conducted under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), it may be assumed all households are willing and able to pay for safer drinking water, even though households vary in their ability to pay.
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BATON ROUGE, La. The Cadeville Water District in Ouachita Parish has received a $1.9 million loan from the Louisiana Department of Health’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program to improve the quality of drinking water for area water customers.
Cadeville Water District President Barry Turner said the funds are being used to construct a water treatment system, a large-capacity ground storage tank, a booster station, and site piping and fencing on recently purchased property along Highway 546. The district recently spent more than $500,000 of self-generated revenue to dig a new well at the site. The well was successfully completed last year.
New legislation calls for PFAS forever chemicals to be regulated as hazardous substances upi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from upi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.