States take up ‘forever chemicals’ restrictions as EPA shifts
… While stakeholders wait to see how the EPA’s announcements will develop into specific actions, one particular area of continued uncertainty relates to PFAS in drinking water. … Following its request to stay legal challenges to these two Biden-era actions to allow the new EPA leadership to review these rules, the EPA on May 14 announced that it would maintain the current national primary drinking water regulation for PFOA and PFOS and introduce a proposal to extend the compliance date to 2031. At the same time, the EPA said it would rescind regulations and reconsider regulatory determinations for PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA (commonly known as GenX), and the hazard index mixture of these three, plus PFBS, citing compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act as its rationale.
Other PFAS news:
- The National Law Review: The shifting nature of the PFAS regulatory landscape