PFAS

2024

• February FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in US Food Packaging
• January Attorney General Tong Sues 28 Chemical Manufacturers for Knowingly Contaminating Connecticut Water and Natural Resources 
• January EPA Requires Toxics Release Inventory Reporting for Seven Additional PFAS

2023

• August EPA Releases Preliminary Results of PFAS Sampling in Public Water Systems Under UCMR 5
• July The Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) Data Summary: July 2023
• July Revisions to the Air Emissions Reporting Requirements
• July Draft Method 1633* Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous, Solid, Biosolids, and Tissue Samples by LC-MS/MS
• January EPA Proposes New Enforcement Initiative for PFAS
• January EPA Announces Plans for Wastewater Regulations and Studies, Including Limits for PFAS, New Study for Nutrients

2022

• November EPA Issues Final List of Contaminants for Potential Regulatory Consideration in Drinking Water, Significantly Increases PFAS Chemicals for Review

• June EPA Announces New Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFAS Chemicals, $1 Billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Strengthen Health Protections

• May Recommended Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS)

• April EPA Memo - Addressing PFAS Discharges in EPA-Issued NPDES Permits and Expectations Where EPA is the Pretreatment Control Authority

• February EPA Seeks Input on TSCA Section 8(a)(7) Rule: Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

2021

• October Response to New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham's Petition Requesting PFAS be Listed as a Hazardous Waste Under RCRA (epa.gov)

• October EPA Responds to New Mexico Governor and Acts to Address PFAS Under Hazardous Waste Law
• October EPA Announces Key Step to Advance Science, Better Protect Communities from PFAS Pollution
• October Broad Coalition of Advocates, Community Leaders, and Officials Praise EPA’s New Roadmap on PFAS
• October EPA Seeks Input on Proposed PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation
• October EPA's PFAS Strategic Roadmap
• September EPA Announces Plans for New Wastewater Regulations, Including First Limits for PFAS...
• September EPA Announces first validated laboratory method to test for PFAS in Wastewater, Surface Water, Groundwater, Soils
• September EPA - Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan
• July PFAS Update: Current State-by-State Groundwater Regulations
• July NIOSH research on PFAS
• June EPA Announces Multiple Actions on PFAS Substances
• June Environmental Protection Agency Announces Three New Actions on PFAS
• April Memo: EPA Council on PFAS (Regan) 
• March Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Organic Chemicals, Plastics...
• January PFAS Action Plan: Commitments Made, Results Delivered 

2020

• February EPA PFAS Action Plan: Program Update 
• January Aggressively Addressing PFAS at EPA 

2019

• February EPA Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Action Plan 

Other Resources

• Addition of Certain PFAS to the TRI by the National Defense Authorization Act 
• PFAS What You Need To Know 
• EPA’s PFAS Action Plan: A Summary of Key Actions 

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