Let this sink in. The Environmental Protection Agency sets legal limits on over 90 contaminants in drinking water. In their new research, scientists at the nonprofit Silent Spring Institute found that ...

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Nearly a third of people in the U.S. have been exposed to unregulated contaminants in their drinking water that could impact their health, according to a new analysis by scientists at Silent Spring ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take In 1962, the biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which captured the public’s imagination and led to a shift in the ...