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• Mapping the PFAS contamination crisis: New data show 610 sites in 43 states

  News

  15 May 2019 | EWG News Release

  The known extent of contamination of American communities with the toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate, with no end in sight. As of March 2019, at least 610 locations in 43 states are known to be contaminated, including drinking water…

• Congress told to stop PFAS at pollution sources

  News

  15 May 2019 | MLive

  [PFAS] have been found in 43 states and officials have identified where at least 19 million people drink water containing them. Requests to the military for mitigation abound; some cleanups are underway. And many states - including Michigan - are looking at legislation and new regulation to increase protections for resident… increasing scrutiny... before they reach drinking water needs to be part of the national agenda...

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2638, the "Minimizing the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS"

  Policy

  9 May 2019

  Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie (D-TX) introduced a bill that direct the Administrator of the EPA to issue guidance on limiting the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS.

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2626, the "PFAS Accountability Act of 2019"

  Policy

  9 May 2019

  Rep. Upton, Fred (R-MI) introduced a bill that would encourage Federal agencies to work with States in order to improve the removal and remedial actions to address PFAS contamination in drinking, surface, and ground water and land surface and subsurface strata.

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2608, the "PFAS Testing Act of 2019"

  Policy

  9 May 2019

  Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick (D-NY) introduced a bill that would require the testing of PFAS under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

• Why researchers and regulators have more questions than answers about PFAS (podcast)

  News

  8 May 2019 | The Whyy

  Communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey have grown increasingly worried about a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS. These ‘forever chemicals’ are in lots of consumer products from pizza boxes to dental floss. And they’ve been found to have contaminated soil and drinking water. But as fears about the potential…

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2605, the "Prevent Release Of Toxics Emissions, Contamination, and Transfer Act of 2019"

  Policy

  8 May 2019

  Rep. Stevens, Haley M. (D-MI) introduced a bill that would direct the Administrator of the EPA to classify PFAS as a hazardous air pollutant.

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2600, the "Toxic PFAS Control Act"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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"

  Policy

  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.

• Seasonal Variation of Water Quality in Unregulated Domestic Wells

  Science

  5 May 2019 | Int J Environ Res Public Health

  Private wells in the American Southwest determined to exceed the Public Health Advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS.