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US drops planned limit for toxin that damages infant brains

by Associated Press
| June 18, 2020 2:27 PM

The Trump administration on Thursday rejected imposing federal drinking-water limits for a chemical used in fireworks and other explosives and linked to brain damage in newborns, opting to override Obama administration findings that the neurotoxin was contaminating the drinking water of millions of Americans.

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