WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Las Vegas, Nev. -U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a letter led by U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) urging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to remove mifepristone and misoprostol from a list of contaminants targeted for surveillance in drinking water in a study that the agency announced in September. Cortez Masto was one of the first Senators to raise the alarm about the EPA study.
Zeldin previously told the Senate Appropriations Committee that he was "not aware" of any efforts to detect medication abortion drugs in water. The surveillance study comes after a pressure campaign by anti-abortion grou...