WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in sending a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the agency withdraw their proposal to roll back drinking water protections - which, if finalized, would remove federal public health limits on the amount of certain PFAS compounds in drinking water.
The senators emphasized in the letter to EPA administration Lee Zeldin that removing these health limits will expose Americans to unsafe levels of chemical that have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, immune suppression problems, developmental harm, thyroid disease, pregnancy complica...