In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) took significant steps to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...
The Trump administration has withdrawn a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that aimed to limit industrial ...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 ...
Heavy concentrations of PFAS in the groundwater beneath the Cadillac industrial park have sparked concern and dozens of ...
EPA has successfully added certain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the toxic release inventory (TRI) list of chemicals ...
A new executive order freezes any new federal regulations including an EPA rule that would limit PFAS concentrations in industrial wastewater.
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 ...
Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, Mr. Trump's pick for EPA administrator, said during his Senate confirmation hearing addressing PFAS would a "top priority." "I was a member of the PFAS task force ...
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.
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 ...