EPA Faces Push To Broadly Apply Stricter PFOA Drinking Water Advisory

EPA is facing a push to immediately disclose and address elevated levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in affected communities across the country, following the agency's recent decision to tighten its unenforceable health advisory level that EPA is using for drinking water contaminated with PFOA in a New York community. The call responds to EPA's decision in a Jan. 28 statement to advise residents of the Hoosick Falls, NY, community not to consume drinking water from private wells with levels of...