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The agency won’t say whether it’ll enforce national drinking water standards for the chemicals.
PFAS, better known as "forever chemicals", are ultra-resistant to water and heat – so much so that they are virtually ...
The U.S. government's approach to regulating PFAS is currently in flux, with shifting policies and legal challenges impacting ...
PFAS are a group of manmade chemicals widely used in consumer products that have been linked to cancer, infertility and ...
The Biden administration set strict new federal standards last year that tightened restrictions on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down easily in the ...
But the following month, the State Legislature passed Amara’s Law, the most aggressive PFAS ban in the country. In recent years, forever chemicals have been increasingly recognized as one of the ...
Forever chemicals are the topic of East Brunswick native Sharon Udasin's book "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals ...
Birnbaum expressed similar concerns about the mention of compliance issues, as well as the EPA’s reference to reporting rules ...
In a historic move to address the growing health threat of “forever chemicals,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is enacting new regulations covering PFAS, a class of seemingly ...
This document had followed an earlier PFAS Action Plan introduced during Trump's first term in office. Under Biden, the EPA listed two specific "forever chemicals" — PFOA and PFOS — as ...