The "forever" chemicals are in such miniscule amounts as to be irrelevant. They are grossly overhyped to their dangers. The reason agencies like the EPA are pushing for stricter rules has nothing to do with reasonable safety standards, but rather the bureaucratic mentality of zero tolerance and 'do something.'
Where these chemicals do exist in significant quantities, which is very rare and always localized, there have been longstanding regulations on them. The EPA is just looking for more to do so they can have more power, a bigger bureaucracy, and a much larger budget. That's a standard set of things any bureaucracy wants, the people they regulate be damned.
That isn't to say they shouldn't be regulated, but the regulations should be reasonable, not "zero tolerance." All too often, the EPA sets their regulations at the zero tolerance level, resulting in huge and unnecessary expenses that lead to far higher prices for things than should be the case.
