New Jersey is leading a coalition of seven states calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enact nationwide monitoring of drinking water supplies for microplastics, with a goal of better understanding the occurrence of contamination in drinking water supplies. A petition sent to Administrator Lee Zeldin requests that the EPA include microplastics in the 2027 renewal of the agency’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 6.
“Including a new contaminant in the UCMR – in this case, microplastics – is often the first important step in…
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