May 23—New Mexico will get about $19 million in federal infrastructure money to expand efforts to detect PFAS in the water systems of the state’s smaller and disadvantaged communities. The grant money will be made available to 500 communities to test their public water systems for PFAS and other emerging toxic chemicals that pose a […]
Tag: cancercausing
EPA move against cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ could help New Mexico’s cleanup fight
Feb. 2—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to put cancer-causing compounds on a hazardous waste list that will give New Mexico and other states more authority to order the pollutants cleaned up, thanks to a petition Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sent to the agency almost three years ago. The EPA aims to add some […]