Orders Upcoming for PFAS Makers to Provide Health Data (Correct)

Orders for PFAS manufacturers to generate new data to help the EPA understand how these chemicals move through the environment and affect people and wildlife will be issued the week of June 6, a senior agency chemical official said Friday.

The Environmental Protection Agency will issue orders “very early next week,” Denise Keehner, director the agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), said at an American Bar Association meeting where she and other agency officials discussed timelines for planned regulatory and other chemical policy activities.

Keehner discussed efforts to require companies that make about 20 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, ...