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 anti...
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...
EPA has finalized a brownfields “due diligence” rule that incorporates a revised industry site assessment standard that includes PFAS, effectively rejecting industry’s request to exclude the PFAS measure for fear it will prematurely expose parties to liability under the Superfund law. The final rule...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its national standard for PFAS limits in drinking water, making it the newest contaminant to face protection limits in drinking water since 1996. Following one year of consultation to determine enforceable maximum contaminant levels for p...
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...
(Michigan enforceable standard) for certain compounds. Now that the EPA has finalized MCLs for six PFAS compounds, however, states must adhere to the federal standards as required by the SDWA if the federal standards are stricter. In practice, this means that states must yield to EPA ...
EPA is setting enforceable Maximum Contaminant Levels at 4.0 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS, individually. This standard will reduce exposure from these PFAS in our drinking water to the lowest levels that are feasible for effective implementation. ...
as well as requests for information to persons involved in R&D, import, production and marketing of covered PFAS. The Rule requires reporting of information that is "known to or reasonably ascertainable by" the company. This standard includes "all information in a person's possession or ...
Together the proposed rules would codify EPA's authority to prescribe corrective action for releases of these PFAS at corrective action sites and potentially open the door to eventually identifying solid waste containing designated PFAS as hazard
EPA appears unlikely to quickly develop and adopt an enforceable drinking water standard for any perfluorinated chemicals as some lawmakers, states and others are seeking, despite calls from the Defense Department (DOD), which may be responsible for hundreds of contaminated water supplies, for a cons...