The White House released on Tuesday a federal strategy to research PFAS that includes directing agencies to identify essential uses and applications where other chemicals or production methods can be used.
PFAS released by a North Carolina landfill into local waters and wells would be controlled and methane emissions would be monitored under a proposed settlement negotiated by an environmental justice group and GFL Environmental Inc., a waste management company.
North Carolina environmental groups said Wednesday they want the federal government to take over water pollution permitting in the state because lawmakers are neutering environmental regulators’ ability to control PFAS pollution in local waterways.
Fred Stone, a Maine farmer whose life and livelihood began to shatter from PFAS eight years ago, sees a ray of hope from the sun.
A large mass tort marketing firm has tapped litigation finance veteran Max Doyle to lead a growing program aimed directly at funders.
Provisions of environmental and other laws can bar claims for financial relief states and other parties seek due to alleged damage from PFAS, the US government maintains in documents asking a judge to dismiss it from nationwide litigation.
States across the US are working to regulate and legislate “forever chemicals” with efforts from funding research to creating new environmental standards. Bloomberg Law is tracking these state-level regulatory and legislative developments in the PFAS State Activity Tracker.
The EPA says more than 600 PFAS chemicals are in the marketplace in the U.S. While states are racing to regulate PFAS, while the federal government lags.
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