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EPA stalls long-planned nitrate cancer review as pollution crisis grows

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in U.S. drinking water.ย  The agency would not confirm the assessment was cancelled, but the work has been stagnant for more […]

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