{"id":74015,"date":"2026-05-26T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/why-trump-administrations-plan-to-attempt-to-destroy-pfas-is-nonsenscial\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:04:42","slug":"why-trump-administrations-plan-to-attempt-to-destroy-pfas-is-nonsenscial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/why-trump-administrations-plan-to-attempt-to-destroy-pfas-is-nonsenscial\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump administration\u2019s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is \u2018nonsenscial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA said it was cutting Biden-era regulations on Pfas in drinking water, but advocates say the move will harm public health and benefit industry<\/p>\n<p>A new Trump administration plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/18\/trump-administration-epa-pfas-water\">ditch Pfas drinking water regulations<\/a> and instead attempt to destroy \u201cforever chemicals\u201d on a wide scale tears a page from the fossil fuel industry\u2019s carbon capture playbook, and will benefit the industry while harming public health.<\/p>\n<p>The US Environmental Protection Agency last week announced it is moving to kill strong Biden-era drinking water limits around four Pfas compounds, and delaying implementation for two more. It represented a blow to public health \u2013 advocates say strong limits and a dramatic cut in the production of the dangerous chemicals are imperative.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/26\/trump-administration-pfas-drinking-water-regulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA said it was cutting Biden-era regulations on Pfas in drinking water, but advocates say the move will harm public health and benefit industry A new Trump administration plan to ditch Pfas drinking water regulations and instead attempt to destroy \u201cforever chemicals\u201d on a wide scale tears a page from the fossil fuel industry\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Why Trump administration\u2019s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is \u2018nonsenscial\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/why-trump-administrations-plan-to-attempt-to-destroy-pfas-is-nonsenscial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Trump administration\u2019s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is \u2018nonsenscial\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}