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

by Brian Bienkowski, The New Lede August 4, 2026 The US 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 US drinking water. The agency would not confirm the assessment […] The post EPA stalls long-planned…