One of Congress’ urgent September tasks: finding a compromise between House and Senate versions of an annual defense bill that take different approaches to climate change and potentially hazardous nonstick chemicals, Dean Scott writes.
- The House and Senate have both passed defense authorization bills (H.R. 2500, S. 1790) that address exposures to chemicals known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. But the Democratic-controlled House’s version designates those chemicals as hazardous under the Superfund law, which would open the door to much more expansive regulation than the Senate bill.
- The House bill also goes further ...