'Millions of people have been drinking a toxic forever chemical linked to cancer all their lives and are only discovering it today.'
According to the USGS, the study is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind thus far, with scientists examining tap water samples from over 700 locations across the country over the course of a five-year period. Per the, these locations were varied, from water taken from protected lands and "residential areas with no known PFAS sources," to locations near previously-identified high-risk waste sites.
According to some experts, however, all regulation is too little, too late if we fail to throttle PFAS at their man-made source.
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