{"id":3800,"date":"2022-09-14T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:23:52","slug":"bay-journal-new-forever-chemical-guidelines-challenge-chesapeake-bay-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2022\/09\/14\/bay-journal-new-forever-chemical-guidelines-challenge-chesapeake-bay-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Journal: New \u2018forever chemical\u2019 guidelines challenge Chesapeake Bay states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">States across the nation will need to do  more to protect the public from toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in drinking water. How much and how soon remain up in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/epa-announces-new-drinking-water-health-advisories-pfas-chemicals-1-billion-bipartisan\" target=\"_blank\">new lifetime health advisories<\/a>\u00a0for four per\u2013 and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, indicating that even minute levels in drinking water pose unacceptable risks to the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayjournal.com\/news\/pollution\/new-forever-chemical-guidelines-challenge-chesapeake-bay-states\/article_6eb48416-256a-11ed-a8b5-1731fee24275.html\">Read the article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States across the nation will need to do more to protect the public from toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in drinking water. How much and how soon remain up in the air. In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed\u00a0new lifetime health advisories\u00a0for four per\u2013 and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, indicating that even minute levels in drinking<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2022\/09\/14\/bay-journal-new-forever-chemical-guidelines-challenge-chesapeake-bay-states\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,70,12,60,1],"tags":[28,32,108],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-water-2","category-drinking-water-2","category-news-stories","category-public-health","category-uncategorized","tag-clean-water","tag-drinking-water","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}