Read the full article by Anya Armentrout (Minnesote Spokesman-Recorder)
“The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back its regulations on PFAS chemicals, worrying environmental and public health advocates.
During the Trump administration, five new pesticides containing PFAS were approved. The EPA also changed the federal definition of PFAS from a chemical containing any carbon-fluorine bonds to one containing more than one carbon-fluorine bond.
Carbon-fluorine bonds are some of the strongesn in chemistry. That makes products incredibly stable, good for firefighting foam or a protective spray. It’s also what makes them ‘forever chemicals,’ lingering in bodies and waterways for lifetimes.
‘That’s a good thing when you want to use it for a product,’ said Bruce Alexander, division head of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota. ‘It’s a bad thing if it’s in the environment, in the body, because then it doesn’t go away. It doesn’t break down, and that’s where the forever chemicals name came from.'”…