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EPA proposes adding microplastics, pharmaceuticals to drinking water watch list

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALI SWENSON Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said they are responding to Americans who have […]

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