In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) took significant steps to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

President Donald Trump withdrew a Biden administration plan to set new limits on chemical discharge into drinking water, ...

A recent report from the EPA outlines the potential human and environmental risks from PFAS chemical found in sewage sludge.

EPA recently proposed significant actions to address PFAS in wastewater under the Clean Water Act by (1) publishing recommended human health water quality criteria used to enact surface water ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that aimed to limit industrial ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment on January 14, 2025, for ...

Using fertilizers with PFAS could contaminate soil as well as surface and groundwater, exposing people to the chemicals. But these risks depend heavily on how the fertilizers are applied. The EPA ...

Moreover, the study finds that amounts of PFAS in the sludge can exceed the EPA’s acceptable threshold “sometimes by several orders of magnitude.” “This draft assessment provides important ...

PFAS chemicals have been linked to numerous health problems, including high cholesterol and kidney cancer. The EPA draft assessment will be open for public comment for 60 days.

More PFAS news as Trump withdraws proposed limits on effluent pollution and remediation is underway in North Bay, Ontario.

The EPA has stated that “exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has been linked to cancers, impacts to the liver and heart, and immune and developmental damage to infants and ...

The Port Washington Water District and the Westbury Water District were each awarded $5 million to build granular activated carbon treatment systems on their wells 7 and wells 15 and 18, respectively, ...