States Target Microplastics in Water, Urge EPA to Regulate Them

Microplastics are so toxic the EPA should monitor and regulate them in drinking water, a group of states said in letters to the agency last week.

The substances “pose significant risks to human and environmental health due to their ubiquity in our planet’s water, air, and land,” the attorneys general of 14 states and the District of Columbia said in a letter led by New Jersey, submitted as comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6) for drinking water that published in April.

Other states, including Wyoming, submitted separate letters supporting microplastics regulations.

The EPA is ...