The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is launching a drinking water quality study to look for traces of abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol for the first time.

Anti-abortion activists, attorneys general, and lawmakers have been lobbying for the agency to carry the study for years.

Researchers at the agency will collect water samples “from several locations in different metropolitan areas” and test them for thousands of drugs, pesticides and synthetic chemicals, including mifepristone, misoprostol, and multiple types of “forever chemicals,” according to a description of the study.

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    3 days ago

    What about all the forever chemicals of… (Insert numerous chemicals that when you can measure it it’s already 1000x the amount it should be)?

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      3 days ago

      Did you not make it to the third paragraph?

      test them for thousands of drugs, pesticides and synthetic chemicals, including mifepristone, misoprostol, and multiple types of “forever chemicals,” according to a description of the study.

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      3 days ago

      people refuse to accept that the epstein class exists despite their priorities written into law like this.

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      The DOW Chemical company already donated $50k to Trump to get EPA off their pfas contaminations of the environment.