The current definition of PFAS adopted by regulatory agencies such as EPA fails to encompass compounds that pose serious ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

For example, the EPA indicates that it has started a nationwide monitoring program for PFAS contamination of drinking water, and a national testing strategy is expected to be released later this year.

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 plaintiffs allege that “EPA has failed to identify as existing in sewage sludge at least eighteen toxic PFAS that available scientific evidence shows are present in sewage sludge in ...

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.

PFAS accumulates in the body, which is why the EPA set their limits for drinking water at 4 parts per trillion for two common types — PFOA and PFOS — that are phased out of manufacturing but ...