PFAS Drinking Water Limits Praised but More Regulations Sought

The EPA’s caps on PFAS in drinking water will decrease the amount of the disease-linked chemicals that many people drink, but regulations on the release of the substances into water and management of wastes with them are still needed.

Individuals, parents, firefighters, and farmers discussed final drinking water standards and a waste regulation that the Environmental Protection Agency released in April during a recent conference on emerging science about the chemicals. Participants called for nonessential uses of PFAS to be eliminated while pressing for new water permit limits and requirements to manage wastes as hazardous.

Data from the first federal ...