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More like we were being overly optimistic about where the sky starts for years.

Or the sky has already fell and no one has noticed yet because our sky-watchers told us it was fine

Just like there was no reason to panic about leaded gasoline pre 1996.

Related, there was a pretty significant discovery of long term release of these chemicals that contaminated the water supply of a county in upstate NY.

Alot of money and research is exploring the topic, not surprisingly, guidance changes as knowledge gets refined.

The EPA’s new recommendation is still not low enough. You realize there is a some cause to panic right? We can’t fish in our streams and rivers, can’t drink rainwater, can’t raise domestic animals without them being full of heavy metals etc. We’ve ruined the basics and this isn’t hyperbole anymore.