Environmentalists Petition EPA For Microplastics Monitoring In UCMR 6

Environmentalists are petitioning EPA to require monitoring for microplastics in its upcoming sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 6) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a decision that will fall to the incoming Trump administration. Food & Water Watch (FWW) and dozens of other groups filed a Nov. 25 legal petition calling on EPA to require monitoring for the presence of microplastics in drinking water in its next UCMR, emphasizing that such a framework is needed for the emerging...