In 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established maximum contaminant levels (MCL) for six PFAS chemicals in ...

Regulations prohibiting the practice were written during the final days of the Biden administration. But Republicans in the ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has ...

The rule would have further monitored PFAS and other chemicals from plastics used in chemical recycling. The plastic industry ...

No PFAS were on the EPA’s “toxic release inventory,” a public database that tracks the production and emission of chemicals across the country, before 2020.

Water experts have been expecting more details on EPA's regulatory plans but will have to wait at least a few weeks longer.

In 2022, the EPA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (88 FR 22399) asking the public for comments on the proposed rule to designate PFAS known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and ...

The EPA's announcement indicates that the agency has started an expansive program to handle these challenges, from expanding the study of individual PFAS chemicals to tracing contamination and ...

Across the US, towns warn of toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water. Here's what to know. In June the EPA released health advisories for chemicals PFOS and PFOA, which have been linked to cancer ...

The EPA proposed new regulations for PFAS and PFOA in the nation's drinking water. The chemicals are part of a class of so-called forever chemicals associated with a variety of health problems.

Eric Kleiner, center, sorts samples for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research Feb. 16 at the EPA's Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati.

They argued the EPA lacked authority to regulate a mixture of PFAS and said the agency didn’t properly support limits on several newer types of PFAS that the EPA now plans to rescind. They also ...