环保署儿童健康月发布100项行动清单 饮用水除铅与PFAS治理在列
华盛顿——美国环境保护署（EPA）10月15日公布一份清单，列出该机构自2025年1月20日以来为保护儿童健康采取的100项行动，涵盖减少铅与PFAS（全氟和多氟烷基物质）暴露、加强化学品与农药安全、改善空气质量等领域，以配合10月的「儿童健康月」。
清单居首的是饮用水除铅：EPA通过饮用水州循环基金向各州提供29亿美元，用于削减饮用水中的铅；通过「除铅」（Get the Lead Out）技术援助计划，指导100多个饮用水系统推进铅制水管更换；并发布工具包，帮助各州与供水系统落实《铅铜规则》中关于学校和托育机构铅采样新要求。EPA还推出了「铅与儿童健康」「哮喘与儿童健康」互动地图工具，并更新了「美国儿童与环境」数据工具。
在PFAS方面，清单称EPA推进全面PFAS战略，宣布近10亿美元新资金帮助各州处理饮用水中的PFAS，并启动「PFAS OUT」外展计划，主动协助社区和供水系统提前减少PFOA和PFOS暴露；清单还列入将一种PFAS新增列入有毒物质排放清单、就生物固体中PFOA和PFOS的风险发布指南草案等行动。
环保署署长李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）表示：「在特朗普总统的领导下，环保署专注于为每一位美国儿童带来洁净的空气、土地和水。这不仅意味着减少铅暴露、更快清理有毒场地，也意味着给家庭以安心——为他们提供守护孩子安全所需的知识和工具。」
环保署称，今年儿童健康月的宣教围绕三项重点：提高认识，了解可能影响儿童健康的环境风险；在儿童生活、学习和玩耍的场所及早行动、减少危害；支持每个孩子每天都拥有健康环境。儿童健康月期间还包括「全国铅中毒预防周」。环保署呼吁家庭、学校和社区利用其资源，减少儿童的环境暴露。
EPA Releases List of 100 Actions Taken Since January 2025 to Protect Children's Health
Washington — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October 15 released a list of 100 actions the agency has taken since January 20, 2025, to protect children's health, spanning reductions in lead and PFAS exposure, stronger chemical and pesticide safety, improved air quality and state and local partnerships, in honor of Children's Health Month in October.
Topping the list is lead in drinking water: EPA has provided $2.9 billion in funding for states to reduce lead in drinking water through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund; worked with more than 100 drinking water systems through the Get the Lead Out technical assistance initiative to guide lead service line removal; and released tools to help states and water systems prepare for new Lead and Copper Rule requirements on lead sampling in schools and childcare facilities. The agency also released Lead and Children's Health and Asthma & Children's Health StoryMaps and updated its America's Children and the Environment data tool.
On PFAS, the list says EPA has advanced a comprehensive PFAS strategy, announcing nearly $1 billion in new funding to states to address PFAS in drinking water, and launched the PFAS OUT initiative to proactively work with communities and water systems to reduce exposure to PFOA and PFOS. It also cites adding an additional PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory reporting list and publishing draft guidance on reducing risks from PFOA and PFOS in biosolids.
"Under President Trump's leadership, EPA is focused on delivering clean air, land, and water for every American child," said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. "This doesn't just mean reducing lead exposure or more quickly cleaning up toxic sites, it also involves giving families peace of mind by equipping them with the knowledge and tools they need to keep their kids safe."
For Children's Health Month 2026, EPA says its educational efforts revolve around three priorities: raise awareness of the environmental risks that can affect children's health; act early to reduce hazards in the places children live, learn and play; and protect and prevent, supporting healthy environments for every child, every day. The month also includes National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. EPA urges families, schools and communities to use its resources to reduce children's exposures.
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