STOMP Program Launched to Tackle Microplastics in Bodies & Tap Water

0:00It's April 6th. From your city to your ears. This has been Kuver News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just dropped major news on tackling. Microplastics in our bodies and tap water. They're launching a $144 million program called STOP, which stands for systematic targeting of microplastics to figure out. What's building up inside us? What's causing the damage and how to clean it out? Meanwhile, the EPA is stepping up by adding microplastics and pharmaceuticals to its priority list for contaminants and drinking water, a first in the program's history. This all went down Thursday at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. with top researchers like environmental scientists and doctors in the room. Reactions are mixed, especially from the Make America Health Again crowd that's been pushing back on Zeldin for easing up on certain chemicals and pesticides.

1:03Kennedy's caught some heat, too, for backing a recent executive order on herbicides like glyphosate, despite past criticisms of them as toxic risks to. Our food supply. Anti-plastic groups are cheering this as a solid first move and calling for quick action to keep plastics out of water sources altogether. Even the chemical industry backs science-based monitoring to understand the real impacts. As we watch how STOP rolls out and California finally shares results from its 2022 microplastics testing mandate, this could spark. Real change in how we handle these tiny invaders long term.