WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and her colleagues are demanding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdraw their proposal to roll back drinking water protections - which, if finalized, would remove federal public health limits on the amount of certain PFAS chemicals in our drinking water.
The Senators emphasize that removing these health limits will expose Americans to unsafe levels of chemicals that have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, immune suppression problems, developmental harm, thyroid disease, pregnancy complications, and liver damage.
"Safe drinking water is not a partisan issue. Families across the country expect that when they...