On October 20, 2021, two days after the release of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap, Radhika Fox, co-chair of the EPA Council on PFAS, appeared in a Environment & Public Works committee hearing and laid out three ways EPA will call on Congress to assist with its regulation efforts: (1) additional statutory authorities; (2) increased funding in the fiscal year 2022 budget to rebuild science and intellectual capacity; and (3) investments in infrastructure to remediate PFAS in drinking water. The request for a robust budget came only one day after the Senate proposed cutting EPA’s budget by almost $700,000.
More information on the implications of EPA’s Strategic Roadmap can be found here.
