The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced efforts to roll back limits on certain PFAS, or forever chemicals, in drinking water. That’s one of the topics of discussion among researchers and community advocates this week at the National PFAS Conference at the University of Arizona. … Many attendees shared concerns that federal and state regulators aren’t doing enough to address PFAS contamination in the environment. … The use of firefighting foams at Davis Monthan Air Force Base has led to groundwater contamination in Tucson. PFAS chemicals have also been detected in public water systems statewide. Participants from across the country shared similar stories from their own communities. In the last year, the EPA cut its Office of Research and Development and has proposed limiting federal protections for drinking water.

Other PFAS news:

• Bay City News Service: Annual 2025 water report shows no PFAS; all state, federal standards met
• KTAR (Phoenix): Arizona gets $20 million EPA grant to address PFAS, other contaminants in drinking water
• KVOA (Tucson, Ariz.): Comment period opens for Tucson PFAS water discharge permit renewal
• Science Daily: An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet