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“California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would establish state-mandated drinking water standards for toxic ‘forever chemicals,’ amid fears that existing federal limits could be scrapped by the Trump administration.
The AB 794 bill would direct the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt emergency regulations that would set limits at least as protective as the ‘federal regulation that was in effect on January 19, 2025, regardless of whether the requirements were repealed or amended to be less stringent.’
The emergency regulations would need to be issued by Jan. 1, 2026, with formal rulemaking to follow and ‘to lock in place the protections that currently exist in federal law,” Gabriel said at a Wednesday webinar.” …