PFAS

New Proposed Rule from EPA Aims to Prevent Companies from Manufacturing or Using Inactive PFAS Without EPA Review

New Proposed Rule from EPA Aims to Prevent Companies from Manufacturing or Using Inactive PFAS Without EPA Review

On January 26, EPA released a proposed Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) that would prevent companies from starting or resuming...

EPA Releases Wastewater Plan for Regulations and a Study to Address PFAS and Nutrients

EPA Releases Wastewater Plan for Regulations and a Study to Address PFAS and Nutrients

EPA has released Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15, that outlines how the Agency will use Clean Water Act provisions to develop...

DoD Releases Revised Military Spec for PFAS-Free Firefighting Foam

DoD Releases Revised Military Spec for PFAS-Free Firefighting Foam

On January 12, the Defense Department (DoD) released the revised military specification that covers the use of fluorine-free (PFAS) fire...

Pennsylvania Sets New Drinking Water Standards for PFAS

Pennsylvania Sets New Drinking Water Standards for PFAS

On January 14, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) adopted new drinking water regulations for two per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

New ECOS PFAS Website with Searchable Database of Resources

New ECOS PFAS Website with Searchable Database of Resources

The Environmental Council of States (ECOS) has launched a newly updated PFAS web page to better spotlight resources and information....

EPA Releases Draft National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2024–2027

EPA Releases Draft National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2024–2027

Today EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) released draft National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECI), previously known as...

EPA Releases List of Laboratories Approved by EPA for UCMR5 as Testing Begins Nationwide

EPA Releases List of Laboratories Approved by EPA for UCMR5 as Testing Begins Nationwide

Testing under the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) began on January 1. UCMR 5 requires public water systems...

EPA PFAS Analytic Mapping Tools Website and Webinar

EPA PFAS Analytic Mapping Tools Website and Webinar

EPA has released the new “PFAS Analytic Tools” web page that provides information about where PFAS has been found across...

ASDWA Asks EPA to Classify Releases of Certain PFAS as a Significant New Use Under Most Recent SNUR

ASDWA Asks EPA to Classify Releases of Certain PFAS as a Significant New Use Under Most Recent SNUR

In comments sent to EPA on December 28, ASDWA outlined recommendations for the Agency’s latest Significant New Use Rule (SNUR),...

EPA Releases Final IRIS Assessment for PFBA

EPA Releases Final IRIS Assessment for PFBA

On December 22, EPA released the final Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program Toxicological Review of Perfluorobutanoic Acid (PFBA). From...

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