WASHINGTON (April 10, 2024)-- The Biden administration finalized the first ever national standard for drinking water. CNN reports that this standard is to “limit dangerous “forever chemicals” found in nearly half of the drinking water in the United States. Some environmentalists called the new rule a “huge breakthrough” and “historic” change that can help protect human health”
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Nina Kelsey is an Associate Professor of Public Policy & International Affairs. Kelsey is an expert in international environmental negotiations, international environmental politics and policy, renewable energy policy and political economy of energy and the environment. Kelsey’s research focuses on how changes to interests can occur over time, and how these changes shape environmental policy making at international, national, and subnational levels.