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“It is unacceptable for the EPA to substitute ideological crusades for sound science. Equating safe, widely used, FDA-approved medications with industrial pollutants is scientifically baseless.

These medications, particularly hormonal birth control, have been used and tested for decades

with no previous reports or complaints of water contamination impacting communities. To hear

anti-abortion extremist groups compare the negligible presence of progesterone blockers to the

very real crisis of microplastics is absurd—but to see the EPA actively validate and invite this

junk science is a dereliction of your duty,” Wyden argued.