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States grapple with billions in PFAS costs and ask EPA for assistance
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29 May 2026 | Waste Drive
Katrina Kessler, a commissioner with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said the federal government may need to consider a fee system or other revenue-generating authority from upstream producers of PFAS chemicals in order to ensure the cost doesn’t fall entirely on taxpayers.
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Forever chemicals are in more than half of America's tap water. Here’s how to reduce your exposure
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27 May 2026 | New York Times
And the EPA has not set a health-based reference concentration for the majority of the 29 PFAS, which means there’s no federal standard for assessing how much of a risk they present.
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Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy PFAS is ‘nonsensical’
Policy
26 May 2026
“No one has said they can destroy PFAS on a large scale,” said Bennett, who is now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) non-profit. “From what we know about PFAS, this is not going to work, and to say ‘We’re going to destroy it so we don’t need to regulate it’ is b*******”
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US officially moves to dismantle drinking water PFAS regulations
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21 May 2026 | Chemistry World
‘We are fixing that error with standards water systems can actually implement and that will hold up to scrutiny, while addressing PFOA and PFOS, two of the best-studied PFAS with well-documented health impacts,’ EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin stated.
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EPA Proposes to Extend Deadlines and Revise Definitions for PFAS Drinking Water Rule
Policy
20 May 2026
The EPA will hold a virtual public hearing on July 7, 2026, to discuss both the proposed deadline extension and the rescission of the four PFAS from the 2024 rule. Read the proposals and submit your comments by July 20, 2026.
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EPA, environmental advocates face off over PFAS in Manchester's wastewater treatment plant
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15 May 2026 | NPR
Lawyers for the Conservation Law Foundation argued before a federal environmental appeals board Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency had not done its due diligence when creating a new permit for Manchester’s wastewater treatment facility.
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EPA’s new contaminants list is a warning on microplastics, PFAS
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14 May 2026 | Bloomberg Law
The list includes 88 unregulated contaminants the EPA is considering for possible future drinking water regulation: 75 individual chemicals, four broader chemical groups, and nine microbial contaminants.
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Agency will move forward with plans to propose weakening some Biden-era PFAS limits, official says
Policy
7 May 2026
The details of the plan haven’t yet been released, but officials previously said they would propose rescinding limits on three types of PFAS, including what are known as GenX substances found in North Carolina. They will then reconsider them. They will do the same with a limit on a mixture of several types of PFAS.
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DC Circuit dismisses case for fast-tracked PFAS review
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1 May 2026 | E&E News
“The court expressed skepticism” that EPA is required “to bring an enforcement action, and, even if it did, the court found that duty had not been triggered,” Judge Harry Edwards.
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[Public Comment] Interim Guidance on the Destruction and Disposal of PFAS and Materials Containing PFAS
Policy
23 Apr 2026
This update provides information on the current state of science and associated uncertainties for three large-scale capacity technologies that can destroy PFAS or control PFAS release into the environment: thermal destruction, landfills, and underground injection.
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EPA’s ‘PFAS OUT’ initiative looks to help utilities get proactive on contaminants
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20 Apr 2026 | WFM
EPA said PFAS OUT is an outreach initiative to provide information on resources, including funding and technical assistance, to drinking water systems with PFAS challenges.
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Update on reporting deadline for TSCA PFAS reporting rule
Policy
9 Apr 2026
This action moves the start of the reporting period from April 13, 2026, to 60 days following the effective date of the agency’s forthcoming revision to the PFAS 8(a)(7) rule.
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EPA should intervene on behalf of towns for PFAS in biosolids, filings argue
Policy
27 Mar 2026
The briefs were filed one week after Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an advocacy group, formally filed an appeal in their case seeking to compel EPA to regulate PFAS in biosolids. A judge previously dismissed PEER’s case in September.
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Majority of Americans say government is not protecting them from toxic chemicals
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26 Feb 2026 | CNN
These strong beliefs crossed age and party lines. Between 81% and 86% of all ages and nearly 80% of Republicans, 88% of Democrats, and 90% of people who declined to identify a political affiliation thought government wasn’t doing enough about chemical safety.
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Are forever chemicals in your drinking water? Check new EPA data here
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25 Feb 2026 | USA Toda
More than 1,050 water systems reported average PFAS levels above the EPA’s new limits.