
Bottom of lineup sparks Dodgers to victory over A’s
- May 15, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Batman had Robin, Simon had Garfunkel and the Dodgers had the bottom of the order on Wednesday.
The Dodgers turned to Hyeseong Kim for a home run on Wednesday and Miguel Rojas for a pinch-hit RBI double as the No. 9 spot delivered in a 9-3 victory over the visiting Athletics.
Shohei Ohtani hit his own home run and Andy Pages and Max Muncy also went deep, but it was the last spot in the order that was a difference-maker Wednesday, with more help for the big bats on the way.
Top prospect Dalton Rushing is expected to make his major league debut in Thursday’s series finale after the catcher was called up for the first time Wednesday.
With the heroics from the bottom of the order out of the way, the Dodgers’ stars were able to create some offensive chaos to supply some insurance runs. Mookie Betts gave the Dodgers some breathing room with a two-run double in the eighth for a 6-3 lead that came immediately after Ohtani was walked intentionally.
As if the A’s didn’t have enough to deal with already, they managed to fire up one of the game’s offensive stars. Upon reaching second base, Betts flexed his pectoral muscles and aimed a trio of “Yeahs” at the top of his lungs toward the opposing bench.
“I wouldn’t want to pitch to Shohei either,” Betts said. “I understand. It’s just all in the game, being a competitor and just let some emotion go.”
The A’s know all about the damage Ohtani can cause. His 19 home runs against them are his second-most against any team, outside of the Texas Rangers (21). Most of that damage came during his days with the Angels.
“I hadn’t hit anything all day, so I think it was a mix of finally coming through for the boys and then in that situation, we just needed something to happen to ensure a win there and it was a mix of happiness for myself and the boys,” Betts said.
Whether it’s with their stars, role players or new additions, the Dodgers are showing no mercy when it comes to making one of the best lineups even better. The stars were able to turn it on during last October’s run to a World Series championship and the same group helped get the club off to an 8-0 start this season.
But as a 20-15 record since then has shown, any and all help is welcome for MVP winners like Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
After Kim hit his first career home run, just over the right-field wall, to tie the score at 3-3 in the fifth inning, Manager Dave Roberts chose to pinch-hit for his rookie one inning later against A’s left-hander Hogan Harris. Rojas made good on the assignment, lashing a two-out double to right-center to score Michael Conforto from first base for the 4-3 lead.
“I always dreamed to play in this stadium,” Kim said after his first Dodger Stadium start. “I’m really happy. I’m really thrilled right now.”
The rally made a winner out of right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-3), whose three runs allowed took his 1.80 ERA to 2.12. Yamamoto gave up four hits in six innings with two walks and six strikeouts.
“After falling behind (and) allowing some hits, I reset my mind and went back to fundamental things,” Yamamoto said through an interpreter. “Checked and then adjusted, and then tried to navigate and grind out this lineup.”
Through his first 11 games, Kim is batting .360 with a trio of multi-hit games.
“I think there’s a little bit of unorthodox swing, which I’m fine with,” Roberts said. “There’s bat to ball. I just think that for me, I’m just seeing a lot of compete. He’s squaring some balls up, hitting them in the pull-side gap. But he’s also soft-serving some balls out there, the infield hit tonight and then the homer. (He’s) just such a dynamic player that just putting the ball in play, moving it forward, something good potentially can happen.”
After an 11-1 loss to the A’s on Tuesday, when the lone run was scored on a Betts ground ball that was booted for an error, Ohtani got things started early with a leadoff home run for a 1-0 lead. It was the 15th leadoff home run of Ohtani’s career and his 13th overall this season.
Pages made it 2-0 in the second inning with a home run to left, his seventh.
The A’s jumped in front when Tyler Soderstrom hit a two-run home run in the third inning to tie it and Miguel Andujar added an RBI double in the fourth for a 3-2 lead.
Kim pulled his home run to right-center in the fifth inning in the rookie’s first home start. Rojas proved he is more than just a defensive replacement with his RBI double for the lead.
“I don’t really try to think about hitting with power,” said Kim, who is known more for defense, speed and an ability to make contact. “I think the only thing that I really care about is to hit a hard hit. And if a hit comes out, I’m happy. And if not, I gotta try to work hard on it.”
Left-hander Alex Vesia and right-hander Kirby Yates each delivered a scoreless inning with a strikeout each to get the Dodgers through the top of the eighth before they added five insurance runs. Betts’ two-run double came just before Muncy’s three-run home run.
“You’re just in the game and you kind of get lost in it,” Betts said.
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LAFC shuffles lineup, routs Seattle to extend unbeaten streak
- May 15, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Rotating forwards Cengiz Ünder and Jeremy Ebobisse into the starting lineup paid off Wednesday for the Los Angeles Football Club.
Each attacker scored, as did fellow forward Denis Bouanga, and LAFC stymied the surging Seattle Sounders, 4-0, splitting the regular-season series with the team that beat the Black & Gold in last year’s MLS Cup playoffs. Midfielder Yaw Yeboah also connected on his first goal with LAFC (6-4-3, 21 points), punctuating the club’s most lopsided win of the year.
Starting for the first time since April 9, when LAFC was eliminated from the CONCACAF Champions Cup by Inter Miami, Ünder was rewarded in the 26th minute with his second MLS goal since arriving on a loan in late February.
Off a corner kick, Seattle (5-4-4, 19 points) cleared a Denis Bouanga cross out of the box. The ball fell to Ünder and from 30 yards away the Turkish left-footed forward struck a curling shot between traffic that took one hop off the grass and snuck past goalkeeper Andrew Thomas, who leaned the wrong way and barely got a hand on Ünder’s attempt.
Seattle’s backup behind Stefan Frei also started the Sounders’ 5-2 victory over LAFC in March. Thomas didn’t have much to do that day. This time he was under pressure from the opening whistle as LAFC ran its streak of results to six while snapping a a five-game unbeaten string (4-0-1) for Seattle.
Making his first start since March 15, Ebobisse provided breathing room for the second straight match in front of LAFC’s home supporters. After putting LAFC ahead 2-0 over Houston on May 3, he did the same against Seattle in the 51st minute.
Capitalizing on a terrific pass from LAFC’s side of the pitch into space by midfielder Igor Jesus, who took the ball off the foot of Seattle’s Pedro de la Vega to set up the action, Ebobisse took it into the box, cut to his right, and struck it low into the corner.
Ünder, Ebobisse and midfielder Frankie Amaya, who made his first start after joining LAFC last month, were subbed off in the 66th minute. Amaya put in a strong hour-plus in place of Mark Delgado, who entered for the last half hour alongside Nathan Ordaz and David Martínez.
Unlike their 2-2 draw on Sunday in Vancouver, LAFC did not defend deep or step off the gas to protect what they had. Instead, Bouanga’s sixth goal of the year in the 80th minute, off an assist from Martínez, and the fifth goal for Yeboah in 81 MLS matches sealed the dominant performance.
Three saves against Seattle preserved Hugo Lloris’ fifth clean sheet in 12 regular-season starts.
LAFC plays its third game in eight days on Sunday when the club visits the winless Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park for the first El Trafico of 2025.
More to come on this story.
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Supes right to be angry at Do wrist slap
- May 14, 2025
One of the most bizarre anecdotes from the debate about disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do’s federal plea deal involving a “conspiracy to commit bribery” came from his attorney’s response to supervisors who think he ought to receive a tougher sentence: “Politically-motivated attempts to influence the justice system are reprehensible.”
Sure, politicians always have political motives, but the real outrage should remain focused on Do and the actions he took that wreaked havoc on Orange County’s government, taxpayers and justice system.
Let’s remember what took place. “While millions of Americans were dying from COVID-19, … Do was the fox in the hen house personified, raiding millions in federal pandemic relief funds and orchestrating the money intended to feed elderly and ailing residents to instead fill the pockets of insiders, himself and his loved ones,” said District Attorney Todd Spitzer.
Do’s sentencing is June 9. Some supervisors are upset at his rather modest sentence. Janet Nguyen, who now represents the seat that Do disgraced, wrote in a Register op-edthat, “He’s getting preferential treatment.” She pointed to much stiffer sentences in other public-corruption cases.
The board voted 3-1-1 on April 30 to send a letter to the judge calling on Do to serve at least five years and to repay the COVID money the county lost because of his behavior. We’re not sure what it might take to get Supervisor Don Wagner—the single vote against the letter—to find his moral compass. He sounded a lot like Do’s defense attorney, as he argued that it was wrong for elected officials to tell prosecutors and judges how to do their job.
We agree with Supervisors Nguyen, Katrina Foley and Vicente Sarmiento, who said that they were merely voicing their concerns as victims. As usual, Supervisor Don Chaffee tried to have it both ways and abstained from the vote. We don’t claim to know the right prison sentence, but returning the funds should be non-negotiable.
And there’s nothing wrong with supervisors—or editorial writers—reminding judges to stay focused on the real culprit here.
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Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets
- May 14, 2025
Homelessness policy in California is built around the idea that no one living on the streets will be compelled to accept shelter, treatment or services, not even housing. However, homeless housing providers can be compelled to accept residents who are actively using hard drugs. And taxpayers can be compelled to pay for homeless housing and services whether anyone on the streets chooses to use them or not.
This is the system Gov. Gavin Newsom described in a recent news conference as “alternatives to state hospitals” that “keep as many people as we can out of CDCR [state prisons] and county jails.”
Compulsion is out of the question, unless you’re a housing provider, a taxpayer or a city government that seeks to prevent this road show from playing in your town. Expect the full force of government to come down on you if you won’t “do your part.”
Newsom has just issued another one of his periodic directives to local governments to remove homeless encampments. Last year it was an executive order. This year it’s a “model ordinance” that cities and counties can adapt to their local needs in order to “immediately address dangerous and unhealthy encampments and connect people experiencing homelessness with shelter and services.”
Newsom’s “model ordinance” says a city should require the residents of a homeless encampment to move at least 200 feet every three days, but enforcement may commence only after the city makes “every reasonable effort” to find shelter, housing or supportive services for the residents of the encampment. A notice to vacate the premises must be posted at least 2 days in advance. When the clean-up begins, “personal belongings,” as defined, must be collected and stored for a minimum of 60 days.
However, Newsom says cities are not obligated to store “toxic sharps,” “chemicals,” or items “soiled by infectious materials, including human waste and bodily fluids.” Cities are allowed to throw away anything that’s “moldy,” “combustible,” or infested by “rats, mice, fleas, lice, bed bugs.” Backpacks and closed containers can be discarded if “an individual licensed to identify and handle hazardous materials” determines that they contain any of the previous items, or if no licensed hazmat worker is present to make the determination. “If personal belongings are co-mingled or littered with needles, human waste, or other health risks,” the ordinance states, “the entire pile of belongings may be disposed of.” However, “the presence of clothing in a backpack or container shall not be the sole reason to discard the backpack or container.”
This process for relocating or removing encampments would seem to repeatedly put city and county workers at physical risk, drain local budgets with extra expenses and risk lawsuits over whether personal belongings were handled correctly. How much documentation is required to establish that a container was legally discarded?
Given the challenges of moving and cleaning up after a homeless encampment, cities might want to prevent encampments from being set up in the first place. In fact, the Bay Area city of Fremont passed an anti-camping ordinance in February that included a provision prohibiting anyone from “aiding and abetting” a homeless encampment. Under fierce criticism, Fremont removed that provision in March.
The governor said cities must “right size” their ordinances. He announced that he was releasing $3.3 billion of funds from Proposition 1, the March 2024 measure that authorized $6.38 billion in borrowing to build “places” for behavioral and mental health services.
The awards include tens of millions of dollars to county public health and mental health departments. Nonprofits also received grants for substance abuse treatment and mental health facilities.
But nobody on the streets is obligated to use them. The governor’s model policy is to wait for people to be ready to accept help, and meanwhile make them move 200 feet every three days.
State hospitals deserve another look. The governor could ask the federal government for a waiver from the rule that prohibits federal reimbursement for care in a mental health facility with more than 16 beds. Federal funds could help with real solutions for people suffering from gravely disabling mental illness.
Better decisions will lead to better outcomes.
Write Susan@SusanShelley.com and follow her on X @Susan_Shelley
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The LA Phil announces The Ford 2025 season
- May 14, 2025
The LA Phil has announced its 2025 season at The Ford, running July 18 through October 31.
Now in its sixth season with the LA Phil at the helm, the historic amphitheater continues to build on its legacy, offering an eclectic mix of performances in one of the region’s most peaceful and picturesque outdoor settings. From orchestral evenings to global music nights, the season reflects the venue’s growing role as a cultural haven tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains.
This year’s schedule offers a mix of music, dance, film, theater, comedy, and spoken word. The season opens with a celebration of hip-hop classic Labcabincalifornia, as The Pharcyde & Friends perform the album live on July 18, followed by the comedic trio Perritos World on July 19, and If I Awaken in Los Angeles, a multidisciplinary love letter to the city on Aug. 1.
The Ford also spotlights Latin artistry with Bajo la Luna on Aug. 31, Noche de Cumbia on Sept. 13, and Tributo A Los Grandes on Sept. 28, honoring icons like José José, Juan Gabriel, and Vicente Fernández. Longtime favorites like Boleros De Noche on Aug. 2, Serenatas y Bodas de México on Aug. 16, and Leyendas del Mariachi on Aug. 7 return, offering a range of traditional sounds with contemporary interpretations.
More highlights include Grammy-nominated Pino Palladino & Blake Mills on Sept. 26, pop artist Andy Grammer on Aug. 10, and a collaborative set from Joe Bataan and Quetzal on Oct. 25, alongside the LA Soundscapes family programming series. Other anticipated performances feature JP Saxe, Aly & AJ, Betty Who with the LA Phil, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, and genre-defying pianist Sofiane Pamart.
Beyond performances, the FordLab program continues to support emerging creatives, and Cornerstone Theater Company’s Direct Address on Oct. 24 tackles the political through public performance.
Ticket packages are available now at theford.com, with single-show tickets going on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 20. The LA Soundscapes series also offers up to two free children’s tickets, ages 12 and under, with each full-price purchase. Programs and pricing are subject to change.
To make getting there easier, shuttles run from both Ovation Hollywood and the Universal City/Studio City Metro station. Additional parking and transportation details are available at theford.com.
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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross announce first Future Ruins film-TV festival
- May 14, 2025
Award-winning composers, musicians, and longtime collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are putting together a lineup of some of the world’s most influential film and television composers for a one-day concert full of homages for film score lovers.
The Future Ruins Festival, happening on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, will allow composers including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Questlove and more to reimagine their work for a live audience. The event will feature electronic sets, live bands and orchestral performances, allowing fans of musical compositions to experience the live debuts of composers who rarely appear onstage.
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” said Reznor in a press statement.
Tickets for the festival go on sale at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21, via futureruins.com.
Here is the full composer lineup for the inaugural Future Ruins Festival.
- Cristóbal Tapia de Veer (“Babygirl,” “Smile,” “The White Lotus,” “Black Mirror,” “Utopia” (UK), Philip K. Dick’s “Electric Dreams,” “Ponyboi,” “The Third Day,” “National Treasure” (UK), “The Girl With All The Gifts, Humans”)
- Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (“Ex Machina,” “Civil War,” “Men,” “Drokk,” “Annihilation,” “Luce,” “Free Fire,” “Black Mirror,” “Devs”)
- Danny Elfman (“Batman,” “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Beetlejuice,” “Men in Black,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory,” “Big Fish,” “Alice In Wonderland,” “Spider-Man,” “Milk”)
- Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (“Suspiria,” “Profondo Rosso/Deep Red,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Demons,” “Tenebrae,” “Phenomena,” “Opera”)
- Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker,” “Chernobyl,” “A Haunting in Venice,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Mary Magdalene,” “Tár,” “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” “Women Talking,” “Hedda”)
- A performance of Howard Shore’s score of David Cronenberg’s “Crash”
- Isobel Waller-Bridge (“Munich: The Edge of War,” “Emma.,” “Black Mirror,” “I Came By,” “Wicked Little Letters,” “Fleabag,” “The Lesson,” “The Boy,” “the Mole,” “the Fox and the Horse,” “Magpie,” “Sweetpea”)
- John Carpenter (“Halloween,” “They Live,” “The Thing,” “Christine,” “Escape From New York”)
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (“Stranger Things,” “Lost in the Night,” “The Hole in the Fence,” “Spheres,” “Native Son,” “Butterfly,” “Retaliators,” “Valley of the Boom”)
- Mark Mothersbaugh (“The Life Aquatic,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Rushmore,” “Bottle Rocket,” “Rugrats,” “The Lego Movie,” “A Minecraft Movie,” “Cocaine Bear,” “Thor: Ragnarok”)
- Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
- Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (“Candyman,” “Master,” “Telemarketers,” “The Color of Care,” “Grasshopper Republic,” “Power,”” Unvion,” “Seeds,” “Life After”)
- Tamar-kali (“Mudbound,” “Shirley,” “The Assistant,” “The Fire Inside,” “The Last Thing He Wanted,” “Come Sunday,” “Palmer,” “The Lie,” “Little Richard: I am Everything”)
- Terence Blanchard (“BlacKkKlansman,” “Malcolm X,” “Inside Man,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “When the Levees Broke,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Woman King,” “Perry Mason”)
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (“The Social Network,” “Watchmen,” “Gone Girl,” “Soul,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Challengers,” “Empire of Light,” “Waves,” “The Vietnam War,” “Mank,” “The Killer”)
- Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (“All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Conclave,” “Lion,” “The Amateur,” “Dune: Prophecy,” “The Day of the Jackal,” “Hollywoodgate,” “Adrift,” “War Sailor,” “The Old Guard,” “Stowaway,” “Patrick Melrose”)
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Prosecutor in Trump classified files case takes 5th Amendment in private interview with Congress
- May 14, 2025
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key prosecutor on the classified documents case against President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview Wednesday, declining to answer questions because of concern about the Trump administration’s willingness to “weaponize the machinery of government” against perceived adversaries, a spokesman said.
Jay Bratt had been subpoenaed to appear before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee for a closed-door interview but did not answer substantive questions because of his Fifth Amendment constitutional right to remain silent.
Bratt spent more than three decades at the Justice Department before retiring in January, just weeks before President Donald Trump took office. He was a key national security prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which in 2023 charged Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and with obstructing the government’s efforts to recover them.
“He did not choose to investigate Mar-a-Lago; rather, the facts and evidence of a serious breach of law and national security led him there,” said Peter Carr, a spokesman for Justice Connection, a network of Justice Department alumni.
“This administration and its proxies have made no effort to hide their willingness to weaponize the machinery of government against those they perceive as political enemies,” Carr added. “That should alarm every American who believes in the rule of law. In light of these undeniable and deeply troubling circumstances, Mr. Bratt had no choice but to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights.”
The statement describes Bratt as someone who spent his career in public service “protecting our nation from some of the gravest national security threats—including spies, murderers, and other criminal actors—always without fear or favor.”
A federal judge in Florida dismissed the prosecution last year after concluding that Smith had been illegally appointed to the special counsel role. The Justice Department’s appeal of that decision was pending at the time of Trump’s presidential win in November, at which point Smith’s team abandoned that case and a separate prosecution charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Since taking office, Trump has engaged in a far-reaching retribution campaign against officials he regards as adversaries.
His administration has issued executive orders aimed at punishing major law firms, including some with current or past associations with prosecutors who previously investigated him. The Justice Department, meanwhile, has fired lawyers who served on Smith’s team and also established a “weaponization working group” aimed at reviewing actions taken during the Biden administration. That group is led by Ed Martin, whose nomination to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington was pulled by the White House last week.
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What the EPA’s partial rollback of the ‘forever chemical’ drinking water rule means
- May 14, 2025
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the first-ever national standards.
The Biden administration said last year the rules could reduce PFAS exposure for millions of people. It was part of a broader push by officials then to address drinking water quality by writing rules to require the removal of toxic lead pipes and, after years of activist concern, address the threat of forever chemicals.
President Donald Trump has sought fewer environmental rules and more oil and gas development. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has carried out that agenda by announcing massive regulatory rollbacks.
Now, we know the EPA plans to rescind limits for certain PFAS and lengthen deadlines for two of the most common types. Here are some of the essential things to know about PFAS chemicals and what the EPA decided to do:
Please explain what PFAS are to me
PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of chemicals that have been around for decades and have now spread into the nation’s air, water and soil.
They were manufactured by companies such as 3M, Chemours and others because they were incredibly useful. They helped eggs slide across nonstick frying pans, ensured that firefighting foam suffocates flames and helped clothes withstand the rain and keep people dry.
The chemicals resist breaking down, however, which means they stay around in the environment.
And why are they bad for humans?
Environmental activists say that PFAS manufacturers knew about the health harms of PFAS long before they were made public. The same attributes that make the chemicals so valuable – resistance to breakdown – make them hazardous to people.
PFAS accumulates in the body, which is why the Biden administration set limits for two common types, often called PFOA and PFOS, at 4 parts per trillion that are phased out of manufacturing but still present in the environment.
There is a wide range of health harms now associated with exposure to certain PFAS. Cases of kidney disease, low-birth weight and high cholesterol in addition to certain cancers can be prevented by removing PFAS from water, according to the EPA.
The guidance on PFOA and PFOS has changed dramatically in recent years as scientific understanding has advanced. The EPA in 2016, for example, said the combined amount of the two substances should not exceed 70 parts per trillion. The Biden administration later said no amount is safe.
There is nuance in what the EPA did
The EPA plans to scrap limits on three types of PFAS, some of which are less well known. They include GenX substances commonly found in North Carolina as well as substances called PFHxS and PFNA. There is also a limit on a mixture of PFAS, which the agency is also planning to rescind.
It appears few utilities will be impacted by the withdrawal of limits for these types of PFAS. So far, sampling has found nearly 12% of U.S. water utilities are above the Biden administration’s limits. But most utilities face problems with PFOA or PFOS.
For the two commonly found types, PFOA and PFOS, the EPA will keep the current limits in place but give utilities two more years — until 2031 — to meet them.
Announcement is met with mixed reaction
Some environmental groups argue that the EPA can’t legally weaken the regulations. The Safe Water Drinking Act gives the EPA authority to limit water contaminants, and it includes a provision meant to prevent new rules from being looser than previous ones.
“The law is very clear that the EPA can’t repeal or weaken the drinking water standard,” said Erik Olson, a senior strategist at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council.
Environmental activists have generally slammed the EPA for not keeping the Biden-era rules in place, saying it will worsen public health.
Industry had mixed reactions. The American Chemistry Council questioned the Biden administration’s underlying science that supported the tight rules and said the Trump administration had considered the concerns about cost and the underlying science.
“However, EPA’s actions only partially address this issue, and more is needed to prevent significant impacts on local communities and other unintended consequences,” the industry group said.
Leaders of two major utility industry groups, the American Water Works Association and Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, said they supported the EPA’s decision to rescind a novel approach to limit a mix of chemicals. But they also said the changes do not substantially reduce the cost of the PFAS rule.
Some utilities wanted a higher limit on PFOA and PFOS, according to Mark White, drinking water leader at the engineering firm CDM Smith.
They did, however, get an extension.
“This gives water pros more time to deal with the ones we know are bad, and we are going to need more time. Some utilities are just finding out now where they stand,” said Mike McGill, president of WaterPIO, a water industry communications firm.
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