Tracking PFAS legislation across the US

By Sara Samora and Kate Magill | Manufacturing Drive | June 26, 2025

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"PFAS are everywhere. Manufacturers have been using “forever chemicals” for their durability and resistance to heat and water, adding them in countless everyday products for decades, such as cell phones, laptops, medical devices, textiles and food packaging.

Up until the late 1990s, the chemicals were seen as an innovative breakthrough. That began to change when attorney Robert Bilott and the late Wilbur Earl Tennant accused chemical manufacturer DuPont de Nemours of dumping what the company already knew to be harmful contaminants from its Washington Works facility into multiple public water systems in West Virginia and southeastern Ohio.

In the decades since, a wave of lawsuits and regulatory actions have been unleashed against the perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and the companies that produce them, with states taking the lead to pass laws banning and restricting forever chemicals. States like Minnesota are also enacting legislation mandating manufacturers to publicly report their use of PFAS."