Despite this influx of funding, the mounting costs of compliance to address PFAS contamination have spurred concern among public water facilities. Although the EPA estimated the annual costs will total $1.5 billion in their comments on the proposed rule, one trade association shared astudythat projec...
On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)announcedthat it will propose the first-ever national drinking water standard for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the latest action under EPA’sPFAS Strategic Roadmap. The proposed National Primary ...
Over the last year, the EPA says it reviewed extensive research and science on how PFAS affects public health, while engaging with the water sector and state regulators to ensure effective implementation. The agency also considered 120,000 comments on the proposed rule from a wide variety of ...
Most U.S. cities would have to replacelead water pipeswithin 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises like the ones inFlint, Michigan, and Washington, D.C....
EPA’s landmark proposal to consider regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water as a class is drawing widespread concern -- even from groups that support the class-based approach -- due to what utilities, states, environmenta
As detailed in our previous blog post, some of EPA’s recent regulatory efforts include the proposal to classify PFAS as a hazardous substance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and a proposed National Primary Drinking Water Regulation under the Safe Drinki...
Correction Appended EPA’s recently released draft risk values for the two most studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could result in non-binding public health goals for the chemicals in drinking water similar to the stringent levels California has proposed that fall in the parts pe...
The EPA recently proposed drinking water limits for PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances often called "forever chemicals," in a push that the agency said will save lives and reduce illness but will require many water providers to install costly treatment systems. ...
breakthroughs in wastewater treatment,” said Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox. “This plan illustrates one way that EPA is following science to better protect public health and the environment. Importantly and for the first time, EPA is committing to limit PFAS in wastewater discharges....
EPA is proposing to include thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as well as groups of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) and cyanotoxins, along with scores of other individual chemicals, on the latest iteration of its periodic Safe Drinki