EPA Defends PFAS Drinking Water Rule in Trade Group Challenge

The EPA pushed back against a challenge to its PFAS drinking water standard, arguing in a brief to the D.C. Circuit that federal law lets the agency regulate mixtures of contaminants and defending the state data it used to craft the rule.

The National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council’s arguments against the Environmental Protection Agency’s first-of-its kind rule lack merit and the groups’ petition for review should be denied, the agency said Monday in a brief filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The American Water Works Association, whose members provide ...