The EPA has announced the first-ever national drinking water standard for certain PFAS substances as well as a $1 billion investment to address PFAS in drinking water. April 12, 2024Alert On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced its highly anticipated...
The US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)has issued a national and legally enforceable drinking water standard for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances(PFAS).The National Primary Drinking Water Regulation sets an enforceable limit of 4.0 parts per trillion(ppt)for both perfluorooctane sulfonic acid(PFOS...
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...
SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): The EPA has issued the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals.’ Exposure to PFAS has been ...
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful forever chemicals in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the first-ever national standards.The Biden administration said last year the rules could reduce PFAS exposure for...
Given the cool reception, the EPA’s Plan is unlikely to satisfy Congress. Accordingly, drinking water system owners and operators, and any and all who manufacture or use products with PFAS, should expect Congress to aggressively oversee the EPA’s implementation of the plan ...
Legislation passed by the House would set a national drinking water standard for PFAS and direct the EPA to develop discharge limits for a range of industries suspected of releasing PFAS into the water. The bill has stalled in the Senate....
While theintroduction of PFAS MCLs is a positive development for public health, it also comes with significant implementation challenges and costs, particularly for publicDrinking WaterUtilities. These entities, who are passive receivers of PFAS contamination, will bear the burden of implementing tre...
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One or more types of per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) were found during water sampling in the CWSs, along with an additional 26 connected satellite water systems, which are included in the public health notice. In total, the affected systems supply water to over 430,000 Illinois re...