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• 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.

• 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. 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.

• Why is high persistence alone a major cause of concern?

  Science

  11 Apr 2019 | Environ Sci Process Impacts

  Increasing concentrations of PFAS, will result in increasing probabilities of the occurrence of known and unknown effects and that, once adverse effects are identified, it will take decades, centuries or even longer to reverse contamination and therefore effects.

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2195, the "PFAs Registry Act"

  Policy

  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.

• The Concept of Essential Use for Determining When Uses of PFASs Can Be Phased Out

  Science

  8 Apr 2019 | Environmental science. Processes & impacts

  The article explores the concept of essential use (already defined in the Montreal Protocol) as a guide for determining which PFAS uses can already be phased out.

• U.S. Congress: H.R. 2102, the "VET PFAS Act"

  Policy

  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.