.@epaleezeldin announces nearly $1B in grants to address PFAS, or "forever chemicals," in the drinking water of small and disadvantaged communities. "We also believe that those who placed PFAS into the environment should be the ones responsible for the legacy cleanup costs."

The Trump administration has approved the use of cancer-linked pesticide trifludimoxazin, a PFAS forever chemical. This is the fifth PFAS pesticide approved for use on food crops during Trump's second term.

The Trump administration has approved the use of cancer-linked pesticides diflufenican and epyrifenacil, both PFAS forever chemicals. Neither pesticide has ever been used in the United States before.

Today the EPA proposed repealing limits on multiple types of “forever chemicals” in drinking water. If finalized, the Trump administration proposal would end drinking water limits for four toxic PFAS.

From your wallet to your benefits to your safety, we're delivering real results for South Carolina seniors. ✅ Championed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, creating a new $6,000 tax deduction for seniors ($12,000 for married couples), helping ensure 88% of Social Security recipients pay no federal income taxes on their benefits, while restricting Medicare and Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens. ✅ Introduced legislation to protect Social Security and Medicare for American citizens and legal residents. ✅ Introduced bills to crack down on scams, fraud, and financial exploitation targeting seniors. ✅ Took action to combat guardianship abuse and age discrimination. ✅ Fought to speed up Medicare Advantage approvals and cut red tape delaying care. ✅ Introduced legislation to provide Medicare coverage for PFAS blood testing. We're working to help seniors keep more, pay less, and get the care they deserve.

Westmoreland County hasn’t had a commercial flight since May. Great news. @SenFettermanPa, @GReschenthaler, and I worked together to secure $850,000 in federal funding to help attract a new carrier to Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. Nobody in Latrobe should have to drive to Pittsburgh just to fly to Myrtle Beach.

Robots cleaning your cars! 🧼 The Autowash Robotics Operating System went into commercial operation this month at their Lakeside site in Wheat Ridge, after around 14 months of development. Here's what happens when you pull in. The system scans the car in 3D first, reading shape, dimensions, contours and whatever is attached to it. Cargo boxes, spoilers, aftermarket accessories. That becomes a digital model of the vehicle. Two industrial arms then generate a cleaning path for that specific car in real time, rather than running the same fixed spray pattern over everything. Still fully touch-free, with high-pressure filtered water and non-corrosive, PFAS-free chemistry. → Under 20 gallons of water per wash, roughly 76 litres → Clean and dry in about four minutes → A four-bay site draws 320 amps, around half a conventional touch-free installation P.S. Curious how this holds up at scale. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Two new chemicals were approved by the EPA for immediate use in semiconductor plants across the US. The EPA’s own review identified cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm, eye corrosion and sudden death as potential effects. It also admitted it doesn’t know the level at which these become lethal. It said it lacked the information to work that out. They approved them anyway. You can’t look them up either. The identities are redacted as confidential business information. They’re known publicly only as P-26-0029 and P-26-0045. Both appear to be PFAS, the forever chemicals that don’t break down and stay in your body for decades. Though even that isn’t confirmed, because the documents are redacted. CHIPS Communities United and the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit in the Ninth Circuit on August 14 alleging violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act. From their attorney: the EPA is sending these into communities and leaving the public to discover the effects one doctor’s visit at a time. This traces back to an executive order fast-tracking chemical approvals for data centers. That’s the part worth sitting with. The AI buildout everyone is investing in has a physical footprint, and somebody lives next to it.