Why EPA Put Microplastics on a Research List — Then Skipped Nationwide Testing

Draft Contaminant Candidate List 6 put microplastics on EPA’s research and priority track. Proposed UCMR 6 left them off nationwide monitoring because EPA says no consensus drinking-water analytical method is ready. Result this cycle: federal acknowledgment without a national occurrence dataset — unless the final UCMR changes course.

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