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Apr 2024
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Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Proble...

The New York Times
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The Environmental Protection Agency has begun for the first time to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals known as “forever chemicals” in America’s drinking water. Kim Tingley, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, explains how these chemicals, which have been linked to liver disease and other serious health problems, came to be in the wa ... Show More
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