Drinking Water

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was passed by Congress in 1974, with subsequent amendments passed in 1986 and 1996, to ensure and protect the quality of Americans' drinking water. Under SDWA, EPA has the authority to set the standards for drinking water quality and oversee states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards. In June 2019, EPA proposed a new perchlorate drinking water standard. EPN commented, raising serious questions about the scientific defensibility of the EPA perchlorate regulation and the validity of the monitoring and cost-benefit analysis.

EPN Writes a Letter on Proposed EAB Amendments

EPN Requests a Comment Extension on Proposed LCR Revisions

EPN Statement to the National Drinking Water Advisory Council

EPN Comments on EPA’s Proposed Drinking Water Regulation for Perchlorate

What to do About Pollution from “forever chemicals”?

January 9, 2019 / by

Lisa Sorg /

NC Policy Watch

Stan Meiburg, EPN member and former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding forever chemicals such as PFOA, PFOS, and PFAS.

Chemicals & Pesticides, Drinking Water, Toxic Substances, Water

State Regulators Fear ‘Nightmare’ Over Complexity of EPA’s LCR Proposal

Dec 5, 2019 / by

Lara Beaven /

Inside EPA

EPN member Carl Reeverts, former Project Manager in the Infrastructure Branch of EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water and Deputy Director of the EPA Drinking Water Protection Division, was quoted in this article about state drinking water regulators raising concerns about the complexity of EPA’s proposed revisions to its lead and copper rule (LCR).

Drinking Water, Water

Why Young People Suffer More from Pollution

Nov. 30, 2019 / by

Pamela Hill /

Oxford University Press Blog

EPN member Pamela Hill, former EPA Deputy Regional Counsel in the New England Regional Office, wrote this blog entry about the intergenerational inequity of pollution and why young people are at special risk for unhealthy adulthood due to the climate crisis.

Air, Chemicals & Pesticides, Clean Air Fact Sheet, Drinking Water, Toxic Substances, Water

White House, CDC Feuding Over Study Of Toxic Chemicals In Drinking Water

November 29, 2019 / by

Kyle Bagenstose /

USA Today

Betsy Southerland, EPN member and former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about a dispute within the Trump administration over a multimillion-dollar federal study on toxic chemicals in drinking water. This article also ran in the Times Telegram and The Intelligencer.