Read the full article by Taylor Giorno (NOTUS).
“Last April, Jessica Kramer of the Environmental Protection Agency told water utility lobbyists gathered in Washington that clean-water issues remained a top agency priority — despite a chaotic start to President Donald Trump’s second term that included budget and job cuts.
Speaking at a ‘Water Week’ event on April 8, Kramer emphasized the EPA’s desire to work with water utilities to clean up ‘forever chemicals,’ the virtually indestructible microscopic substances infiltrating Americans’ drinking water, and making ‘polluters pay’ to cover the costs.
But industries that have historically produced those ‘forever chemicals’ had significant concerns.
The day after Kramer’s speech, she joined other EPA officials on a previously unreported Microsoft Teams call with the American Forest and Paper Association, according to internal emails obtained by NOTUS through a Freedom of Information Act request.”…