On May 15 New York's junior Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia announced legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an enforceable standard under the Safe Drinking Water Act for per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. Drinking water in Hoosick Falls in Rensselaer County, and surrounding Stewart Airport in Newburgh have been contaminated with PFAS. “It is the EPA’s job to protect Americans from highly toxic chemicals like PFAS, but they have failed to do what is necessary to help ensure our families in New York and across the country are no longer exposed to dangerous levels of PFAS in their drinking water,” Gillibrand said in a press release.