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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 1976, the "PFAS Detection Act of 2019"
Policy
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.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 1863, the "Testing for Impacted Firefighters"
Policy
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.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 1567, the "Prompt and Fast Action to Stop Damages Act of 2019
Policy
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.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 535, the "PFAS Action Act of 2019"
Policy
14 Jan 2019
Reps. Dingell (D-MI) and Upton (R-MI) introduced a bill that would require the EPA Administrator to designate all polyfluoroalkyl substances as hazardous substances under Superfund (CERCLA).