U.S. Congress: H.R. 2600, the "Toxic PFAS Control Act"
8 May 2019
Rep. Dean, Madeleine (D-PA) introduced a bill that would regulate PFAS under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2596, the "Protecting Communities from New PFAS Act"
8 May 2019
Rep. Kuster, Ann M. (D-NH) introduced a bill that would amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to require manufacturing and processing notices for PFAS containing products.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2591, the "PFAS Waste Incineration Ban Act"
8 May 2019
Rep. Khanna, Ro (D-CA) introduced a bill that would prohibit the incineration of PFAS containing waste.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2577, the "PFAS Right-To-Know Act"
8 May 2019
Rep. Delgado, Antonio (D-NY) introduced a bill that would amend the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 to include PFAS on the Toxics Release Inventory.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2570, the "PFAS User Fee Act of 2019"
8 May 2019
Rep. Rouda, Harley (D-CA) introduced a bill that would ensure that polluters pay ongoing water treatment costs associated with exposure from PFAS pollution.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2533, the "Providing Financial Assistance for Safe Drinking Water Act"
7 May 2019
Chairman Pallone (D-NJ) introduced a bill would require the EPA Administrator to establish a program to award grants to PFAS-affected water systems to pay the capital costs associated with installing treatment technologies that can remove all detectable amounts of PFAS from drinking water.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2566, the "Revise Safer Choice labels to include PFAS"
7 May 2019
Rep. Soto, Darren (D-FL) introduced a bill that would require the Administrator of the EPA to revise the Safer Choice Standard to include a Safer Choice label for cookware that does not include PFAS.
Michigan: Health-based PFAS drinking water screening levels for a number of PFAS
22 Apr 2019
Michigan set new health-based PFAS drinking water screening levels: PFOA & PFNA (9 ng/L, ppt); PFOS (8 ppt); PFHxS (84 ppt); PFBS (1000 ppt). They plan to develop MCLs that consider costs, etc. for these 5 PFAS in the near future.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2195, the "PFAs Registry Act"
10 Apr 2019
Rep. Pappas, Chris (D-NH) introduced a bill that would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain a registry for individuals who may have been exposed to PFAS due to the environmental release of aqueous film-forming foam on military installations.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 2102, the "VET PFAS Act"
4 Apr 2019
Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. (D-MI) introduced a bill that the Federal code to provide care and medical services to veterans and their dependents who may have been exposed to PFAS.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 1976, the "PFAS Detection Act of 2019"
28 Mar 2019
Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. (D-MI) introduced a bill that would require the Director of the United States Geological Survey to perform a nationwide survey of perfluorinated compounds.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 1863, the "Testing for Impacted Firefighters"
25 Mar 2019
Rep. Norcross, Donald (D-NJ) introduced a bill that would require the Secretary of Defense to provide blood testing for firefighters of the Department of Defense to determine exposure patterns to PFAS.
The Cost of Inaction: A socioeconomic analysis of environmental and health impacts linked to exposure to PFAS
13 Mar 2019
A recent Nordic Council study estimates the very high cost of harm to human health and the environment from PFAS exposure across Europe.
U.S. Congress: H.R. 1567, the "Prompt and Fast Action to Stop Damages Act of 2019
6 Mar 2019
Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray (D-NM) introduced this bill would authorize the Department of Defense to provide clean uncontaminated water for agricultural purposes to areas affected by PFOS and PFOA contamination from military installations.
EU: Drinking water directive
27 Feb 2019
A proposal for revision of the DWD will go to the European Parliament for adoption later this year.