EPA Announces PFAS Plans Focusing on Disposal, Air Emissions (1)

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin took steps to address uncertainty over how the Trump administration’s deregulatory efforts could affect previously issued and planned “forever chemical” regulations.

The Environmental Protection Agency will launch additional efforts to collect information about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) released into the air and technologies that can measure them and update its PFAS Destruction and Disposal Guidance every year instead of every three years, Zeldin said on Monday in the most detailed statement about the chemicals since the start of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

“I have long been concerned about PFAS and the efforts to help ...