Building a nuclear pipeline of skills.

For Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Benashore and for David Brancaccio.

First up, water and chemical industry groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency.

They're challenging a new rule on so-called forever chemicals that have made their way into the

nation's drinking water.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser reports.

These chemicals are known as P-FAS. Environmental groups say they can cause cancer.

The EPA approved a rule limiting levels of some of these chemicals in our drinking water.

The American Water Works Association and Association of Metropolitan Water

agencies say the EPA rule, quote, significantly under-estimates nationwide costs.

The National Association of Manufacturers and American

Chemistry Council filed the other lawsuit. They say the new rule is

unachievable. P-fast chemicals are widespread found in waterproof and non-stick products.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. So, Make more things in the US. It's one of the few rallying cries one hears on both sides of the political aisle.

But to make things here, people need to know how to make those things.

So our question this week is who gets the skills to get the jobs making things here.

Marketplace is David Brancaccio, travel to Georgia to look at pipelines of people from

all walks of life who are gaining the skills to work and create IRL in real life.

Today he's on the Georgia and South Carolina border looking at jobs on a more atomic

level.

What if I told you there's a place with warm winters where they're hiring like crazy even though you

have zero experience in the industry.

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