WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
This week, Senators and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) members Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and 24 of their Democratic colleagues demanded (https://www.kelly.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EPA-PFAS-MCL-letter-1.pdf) 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 compounds in our drinking water.
The senators emphasized that removing these health limits will expose Americans to unsafe levels of chemicals that have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, immune suppression ...