A senior House Democrat is pushing EPA for answers on a delayed report on the health effects of “forever chemicals.”
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), ranking member on the House Appropriations Subcommittee overseeing EPA, sent a letter Thursday pressing EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over “a growing pattern of interference with the Agency’s scientific work,” the letter reads.
A ProPublica exposé published last week revealed the agency has for months delayed the release of a final toxicity report linking developmental, liver and reproductive risks to the chemical perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA).
PFNA was one of the six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances subject to the first-ever drinking water limits under the Biden administration. The Trump administration is now reconsidering those standards.
