Minnesota cities maintain plans to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water

The Trump administration announced last month it plans to uphold limits on the two most common types of "forever chemicals" in drinking water.

But it plans to delay the deadline for water utilities to meet those standards and roll back limits on four other potentially harmful PFAS chemicals.

PFAS is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It’s a class of thousands of chemicals used in a wide variety of products, such as nonstick cookware, water repellant clothing, carpet and firefighting foam.

In Minnesota, the federal changes likely won’t change much. Twenty-two Minnesota public water supplies have PFAS levels above the limits.

Several cities with elevated PFAS levels are moving ahead with plans to install treatment systems to remove the chemicals from their water supplies — so