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Kirsten Engel: “EPA had done in the basically 2023 time period, more studies…”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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Distinguished Environmental Lecture: Kirsten Engel

Published | Video Starts at 35:51

So the Black, the lower standards there, those are the more stringent standards. The orange is 70 parts per million. That was an early federal standard for PFAS in drinking water. Since then, EPA had done in the basically 2023 time period, more studies and found that there needed to be a much more stringent [PFAS] standard. Then you have some states that did have adopted a very stringent standard. But, but other states that are up at that sort of original, more lax PFAS standard. (35:51)

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