Dear NRDC Activist,

Every day, as many as 94 million people in communities across the country drink water contaminated with PFAS at levels exceeding EPA's proposed health standards.

Exposure to PFAS — known as "forever chemicals" because they are extremely resistant to breaking down in the environment — has been linked to a long list of health effects, including cancer, immune suppression, infertility, and developmental harm.

Thankfully, the EPA recently released a groundbreaking proposal to regulate six PFAS chemicals that would save thousands of lives every year — a huge win for safe drinking water — and they need to hear from millions of supporters like you before the May 30 deadline.

Submit a public comment in support of the EPA's historic proposal to regulate PFAS chemicals. If we're going to end the scourge of PFAS, then we must have stronger protection from these toxic chemicals in our drinking water.

Not only are PFAS chemicals contaminating our drinking water, but they persist in the environment, build up in our blood and organs, and continue to cause harm decades after they are released into the environment.

But while the EPA's proposal is a bright light at the end of this tunnel, big chemical corporations that have been allowed to manufacture, use, and release the PFAS chemicals that are polluting our environment with impunity are already trying to weaken these necessary protections.

We simply cannot allow these PFAS polluters to snatch this victory for safe drinking water away from the communities that have been devastated by PFAS-related illnesses and death every year.

Submit your public comment urging the EPA to quickly finalize this proposal and to implement a rule that will finally start protecting our communities from PFAS chemicals-contaminated drinking water.

The EPA's finalized proposal to regulate these six highly toxic chemicals — all part of the larger PFAS class of more than 12,000 chemicals — is a historic start to protecting our families and most vulnerable community members, especially children and pregnant people. But that's not all.

By proposing these long-overdue limits, the EPA is signaling that they may start moving toward addressing PFAS as a class of chemicals in drinking water in future rules. If EPA makes that move, it would be a critical next step to ensuring the fundamental right of every family to have safe water flowing from their kitchen tap.

Please, lend your voice and submit a public comment today. The EPA must hear from you in order to enact the strongest possible protections from PFAS in our drinking water.

Thank you for being with us. Your actions today can make all the difference.

Sincerely,

Erik D. Olson
Senior Strategic Director, Health and Food, NRDC