EPA Advisors Query Grouping Options For Drinking Water Contaminants

EPA science advisors are raising several questions about the agency’s draft list of drinking water contaminants that may need to be regulated, including why EPA chose to list some perfluorinated and other compounds as groups but not others, and whether individual contaminants or subgroups within the groups should be prioritized for regulatory decisions. The Science Advisory Board (SAB) drinking water committee says in a draft report scheduled to be discussed at a June 3 virtual meeting that it finds it...