Top senators on a key environmental panel are in negotiations toward legislation to address liability fears from farmers and water treatment agencies following EPA’s proposal to regulate two forever chemicals under Superfund law.
Negotiations between Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and ranking member Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) have involved addressing concerns over liability for cleanups under an Environmental Protection Agency plan to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law, the agency’s first use of such authority in the 40-plus years since its passage.
“Both Senator Capito and I don’t agree on every issue. ...
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