EPA Lists 160 ‘Forever Chemicals’ That Must Be Reported (2)

The EPA has released a list of 160 “forever chemicals” that companies and federal facilities must for the first time report to the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory.

The per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, met specific criteria included in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which became law on Dec. 20, according to an EPA notice from late Thursday. No PFAS were included on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) prior to the defense authorization act.

Companies or federal facilities that release 100 or more pounds of the PFAS must ...