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We’re Drinking Plastic. The EPA Must Act!

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By Mary Lee Grant, Natalie Balbuena Chavez
| Food and Water Watch
Microplastic pollution has inundated our world, creating a public health crisis on an incomprehensible scale. Despite this, the federal government has failed to take serious action. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a symbolic move toward regulating microplastics by putting them on its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL). This is an encouraging sign — but it’s far from what we need to get out of this microplastics mess.
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