The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday that it will propose a rule to set the first-ever limits on the amount of chemicals called PFAS can be discharged. In a new plan released on Wednesday, the agency affirmed that it would pr
EPA is taking interim steps toward implementing goals for addressing wastewater discharges under its strategic roadmap for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including creating an exposure model for PFAS in biosolids to be submitted for scientific peer-review later this year and developing gu...
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...
28 Federal Register notice. EPA announced earlier this year in the final Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 that it intended to expand a study of textile mills "to gather information on the use, treatment, and discharge of PFAS from the industry."Lara BeavenWater policy report...
better protect public health and the environment through regulation of wastewater pollution. In making the announcement, the EPA released Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15 (Preliminary Plan 15), which outlines new regulations to reduce contaminants—including PFAS and nutrients—from key ...
The revised health guidelines are based on new science and consider lifetime exposure to the chemicals, the EPA said. Officials are no longer confident that PFAS levels allowed under the 2016 guidelines “do not have adverse health impacts,’' an EPA spokesman said. While the new ...
A bipartisan group of 31 House lawmakers -- 29 Democrats, 2 Republicans -- is pressing EPA Administrator Michael Regan to do more to restrict industrial discharges of PFAS, saying EPA’s current plan for setting effluent limitation guidelines (ELGs) fall
EPA Releases Guidelines For Risk Assessment of Chemicals About the toughest job the Environmental Protection Agency faces regularly is determining how dangerous a chemical is. With the incomplete information that is normally available about the health effects of a compound, EPA is asked to dec... HA...
This brief demonstrates the extraction and analysis of 25 PFAS compounds from water samples using Oasis WAX for PFAS SPE cartridges, according to EPA 533 methodology. Related Content Testing Solutions for Metals and PFAS in Water PerkinElmer, Inc. January 22nd 2025 Article When it comes to water ...
The cartridges are suitable for PFAS analysis in accordance with EPA 1633 guidelines for recovery and %RSD. The WAX/GCB cartridges show excellent repeatability across multiple product lots and within multiple replicates of each lot...