drinking waterUS EPATo help protect people from harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and ensure access to clean drinking water, the US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized tough new limits for six PFAS in drinking water. The standard, announced April 10 , will "reduce ...
The foregoing patchwork approach has resulted in a wide range of concentrations for state-based PFAS drinking water standards or guidelines, ranging from 2 ppt (Connecticut "action level") to 400,000 ppt (Michigan enforceable standard) for certain compounds. Now that the EPA has finalized MCLs fo...
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 ...
EPA has set first-time enforceable limits for six PFAS in drinking water similar to strict limits it proposed last year while adopting new measures to ease compliance for water systems -- including extending the compliance window to five years -- and underscoring efforts to provide billions of ...
As EPA weighs drinking water limits for the entire class of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), state regulators are urging the agency to release chemical-specific PFAS test methods -- echoing calls for officials to collect those methods under TSCA, and saying they can be used to ensu...
EPA proposes limits on PFAS in drinking water Chemical WeekRebecca Coons
The Biden administration on Wednesday set the first-ever national limits for toxic and pervasive ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water. The administration’s action seeks to reduce the amount of chemicals belonging to a class known as PFAS in drinking
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the first-ever While the EPA has only put strict limits on si PFAS based on a loto scientific evidence, thousands more are still in the enviroment. The hope is that limits on PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in drinking water. ...
An enforceable limit on a combination of PFNA, PFHXs, PFBS, and GenX chemicals: The proposed rule would place limits on any mixture containing one or more of PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, and/or GenX chemicals. According to EPA, for these PFAS, water systems would use an approach ca...
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose new limits on PFAS chemicals in drinking water this year. KFF Health NewsAug. 10, 2022 Supreme Court Issues Blow to EPA In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority limited the agency’s ...