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Environmental Group Sets High Hopes for EPA’s PFAS Monitoring, Cleanup Plan

Bastiaan Slabbers
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WHYY
Detailed view on the newly installed system to filter out PFAS Forever Chemicals at Well #2 of the Horsham Water and Sewer Authority facility in Horsham, Pa., on August 22, 2019.

The EPA is expected to announce a plan to address PFAS contamination in the coming weeks. The class of toxic chemicals has been detected in water sources nationwide, notably near current or former military bases. WHYY StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Zoe Read has more.

(Original air-date: 10/8/21)

Zoë Read is WHYY’s watershed reporter. She joined WHYY in 2015 as a multimedia reporter covering Delaware news for the web and FM.