Water Utilities Ask Congress To Strengthen SNURs After EPA Rejects Calls

Municipal utility operators are urging Congress to reform TSCA to require EPA to consider new chemicals’ impacts on drinking water when writing significant new use rules (SNURs) after officials repeatedly rejected their calls to coordinate the rules with drinking water standards to limit chemical releases into the nation’s water supplies. “These SNURs regularly include chemicals which are highly persistent, migrate easily to groundwater, or are difficult to remove through normal wastewater treatment practices,” Diane VanDe Hei, CEO of the Association...