President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at limits on toxic "forever chemicals" in Americans' drinking water — a move likely to deepen anger among his Make America Healthy Again allies, NOTUS reported Monday.
The EPA announced Monday that it wants to scrap legally enforceable nationwide drinking water limits on four forever chemicals, including GenX, a chemical used to make Teflon that has infamously contaminated North Carolina's Cape Fear River.
The agency also wants to give some drinking water systems until 2031 to meet limits on PFAS and PFOA, the two most high-profile forever chemicals, the report said.
The proposed rollback would gut the country's first-ever nationwide forever chemical standards, which were finalized by the Biden administration in its final year.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's agency accused the Biden administration of committing a "procedural foul" when it set the limits and warned the existing rules might not be "legally defensible."
For MAHA activists, the move is the latest escalation of an ongoing fight. Many already signed a petition last year demanding Zeldin's removal over similar proposals to ease forever chemical restrictions, the report noted.
"The Trump administration risks angering MAHA with its plan," the report warned.
Forever chemicals have contaminated drinking water across the U.S. for decades, leaching in from agricultural sites, industrial facilities, and military bases. They remain in human bloodstreams for years and have been linked to reproductive harm, liver damage, hormone disruption, and elevated cancer risk, according to the EPA's own assessments.
The agency is also expected to distribute a final $1 billion in PFAS removal funding to states.