By this time next year, a wide range of businesses, governments and citizens will know a lot more about per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFOS and PFOA) in their communities. PFOS and PFOA compounds are a family of...more
12/2/2020
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Information about PFAS compounds in California is literally exploding, with additional contamination sites identified almost daily, while the science and legal environments surrounding these “forever chemicals” also see...more
2/10/2020
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On December 17, 2019, Congress finally passed legislation to speed investigations and cleanups of military facilities contaminated with per- and poly-fluorinated compounds (PFAS compounds). The legislation — the 2020 Defense...more
EPA on November 25, 2019, announced and signed an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to explore a possible promulgation of a rule that would add PFAS compounds to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and require...more
New Hampshire has just become the first state to finalize drinking water maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for PFOS and PFOA, two of the best known and studied PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances), setting levels for...more