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New EPA PFAS Announcements Carry Significance

By June 11, 2021June 14th, 2021PFAS in the news

Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took three new actions related to PFAS, each of them significant to companies in the United States. The new EPA PFAS announcements included:

  1.  issuing a proposed rule that will gather comprehensive data on more than 1,000 PFAS compounds that are manufactured or imported into the United States;

  2. withdrawing guidance that weakened EPA’s July 2020 Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) restricting certain long-chain PFAS; and

  3. publishing a final rule that officially incorporates three additional PFAS into the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

The details of each are provided below; however, for any company that manufactures, imports, or utilizes PFAS in manufacturing, it is critical to pay attention to these developments. Read more…