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EPA Announces ‘Strategic Roadmap’ to Address Toxic PFAS Problems

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

The EPA on Monday announced what it’s calling a “strategic roadmap” to tackle PFAS. The agency says the plan would prevent this class of toxic chemicals from being released into the environment. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, WHYY’s Zoe Read has more.

(Original air-date: 10/20/21)

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