EPA Asks Courts to Pause PFAS Drinking Water Rule Lawsuit Again

The EPA asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday for 45 more days to decide how it will proceed in litigation challenging the nation’s first ever drinking water limits on “forever chemicals.”

The Environmental Protection Agency asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a third pause, or abeyance, in the lawsuit water utilities, joined by chemical and other manufacturers, brought opposing final drinking water limits the EPA set last year for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

The National Association of Manufacturers, American Chemistry Council, and the Chemours Company FC, LLC, which are challenging ...