(WKYT) – Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman was one of 14 state attorneys general to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to classify an abortion drug as a water contaminant.
According to the Kentucky Lantern, 19 members of Congress also asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to designate mifepristone as a water contaminant, citing a 1996 FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research statement.
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The statement said environmental impacts of the drug were “not anticipated,” and acknowledged that mifepristone may enter the environment from excretion or disposal of pharmaceutical waste, the Kentucky Lantern reported.
In the Kentucky Lantern’s report, they said environmental health science experts say there is no evidence to suggest mifepristone in wastewater causes harm to people or the environment.
Experts also say drug trace amounts in water are a common occurrence, and that state agencies check for harmful contaminants in water as part of protocols, according to the Kentucky Lantern.
The Kentucky Lantern said attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas also signed the letter to Zeldin.