{"id":1079,"date":"2023-03-14T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:19:44","slug":"epa-proposes-national-drinking-water-standard-for-pfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/epa-proposes-national-drinking-water-standard-for-pfas\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Proposes National Drinking Water Standard for PFAs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a regulation that would require public water systems to track per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, notify the public when PFAS and PFOA are present in water and take action to remove the chemicals if contamination exceeds 4 parts per trillion. The agency also wants to regulate four other PFAS as mixtures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Full Story:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/qbAkCpbDtCDvqYoDCifDaqBWcNfMnI?format=multipart__;!!PTd7Sdtyuw!VvaedpYvxXXnwbgMdgkl_T0WjjJvGp2BzKeb2v6DcsAA0OTxMo_abdQe0wWPyMTqEyQQCUyARtaUEg$\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a>\u00a0(3\/14)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>March 14, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Bzb6OcCNMTEfAE71a0eCg-S3LojKnbWbwLY3gvajvQ4ulICZbswqv6_rK5gRE8lwxsxBlizN6xqyV4Rrpi4eFlf-417gyCJRU50oXhfOLLxB65eE8gySuBez7G_T4hNyE-Y8J4n4Dnx0bEGffaGaJFT4P9ZrC5-Ttso2UuJYptidS28JzBEAq4laloIW5YA=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/cdn.smartbrief.com\/contentrepo\/template\/342EDBBF-6969-43D6-9184-EA6BA68C4EAD\/0053-ed6b\/WEF_2019_masthead_650x105.gif\" alt=\"WEF SmartBrief\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a regulation that would require public water systems to track per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, notify the public when PFAS and PFOA are present in water and take action to remove the chemicals if contamination exceeds 4 parts per trillion. The agency also wants to regulate four other PFAS as &#8230; <a title=\"EPA Proposes National Drinking Water Standard for PFAs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/epa-proposes-national-drinking-water-standard-for-pfas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EPA Proposes National Drinking Water Standard for PFAs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[27,78,89],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-external-news-events","category-uncategorized","tag-epa-2","tag-pfas","tag-wef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecas.clemson.edu\/sce3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}