Michigan has also taken steps toward regulating PFAS. For instance, the Michigan House of Representatives adopted a resolution creating a PFAS Advisory Committee to review Michigan's knowledge of PFAS. Members of the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan State Senate have also introduced ...
The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has begun review of EPA's much-anticipated, first-ever rule to set enforceable Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) limits for PFAS, expected to cover six of the chemicals, although it is questionable whether OMB can complete its review in time...
EPA has found negative health effects from the two most studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at “much lower levels of exposure” than previously believed, the agency says of draft scientific documents submitted to its Science Advisory Board (SAB), setting a path to develop strict...
7-8 meeting of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) in Washington, D.C., EPA drinking water chief Peter Grevatt noted that while the agency has issued many health advisories that received little attention, "there's something different" about the public reaction to the 2015 ...
A Biden administration official told reporters on Tuesday night that the agency was lowering its health advisory — meant to inform the public about how much is considered safe to drink — for the two most notorious types of PFAS, known as PFOA and PFOS to “near zero” in new i...
EPA urges appeals court to deny industry challenge to PFAS health advisories : “Petitioner challenges EPA’s publication of two interim health advisories under the Safe Drinking Water Act. This court lacks jurisdiction over the petition for two independent reasons. First, ‘health advisories (which ...
By the end of the month, the EPA asked its Science Advisory Board to review draft documents regarding health effects PFAS. The request for review was a result of recent scientific data regarding the negative health effects of lower levels of PFOA and PFOS than previously understood and that PFO...
Expert panels in Michigan and New York - two states that are grappling with contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) - say that EPA's health advisory levels for the contaminants in drinking water are not adequately protective, opening the door for regulators to adopt ...
Environmental and public health groups hailed the announcement as a good first step. Advocates have long urged action on PFAS after thousands of communities detected PFAS chemicals in their water. PFAS chemicals have been confirmed at nearly 400 military installations and at least 200 million people ...
they stop short of asking DOD to directly apply new EPA health guidelines as cleanup levels. EPA’s release in June of four drinking water health advisories for certain PFAS “establish[s] a significantly lower federal threshold for protecting public health than the previous EPA advisory of... ...