WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is calling on (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ABS-EPA-PFAS-MCL-proposal-comment-letter.pdf) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to 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.

Without these limits, Americans could be at risk of being exposed 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.

"The agency's propo...