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EPA Hiding Nitrate Health Assessment | Des Moines News
Food & Water Watch is suing the EPA over its failure to release a critical health assessment on nitrates and nitrites in drinking water — a delay they say could endanger public health by allowing outdated, weak standards to persist. The group’s FOIA request, filed in August 2025, went unanswered, even as the EPA shut down the very office overseeing this assessment in July of that year. This isn’t the first time they’ve challenged the agency — they’ve also pushed for action on nitrate pollution and sued over water list removals. Now, they’re demanding the court force the EPA to comply with…
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