Companies Making, Using Some PFAS Form Two Advocacy Groups (1)

The scientific, policy, and regulatory issues surrounding the large, diverse group of chemicals known as PFAS will be better addressed by two industry groups instead of one, a major chemical trade association has decided.

The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) FluoroCouncil has become two organizations: the Performance Fluoropolymer Partnership and the Alliance for Telomer Chemistry Stewardship, the council announced Tuesday.

Each group will track policies, legislation, and regulation of interest to their customers and help decision-makers understand the value that fluoropolymers and flurotelomers have for different industrial and consumer applications, said Robert J. Simon, ACC’s vice president of chemical products and ...