Cleanup decisions for Superfund sites with PFAS contamination are being delayed as the EPA gears up to implement its final rule designating two of those chemicals as hazardous substances, said speakers at a waste conference.
Environmental Protection Agency officials and other speakers at an Air & Waste Management Association meeting on Tuesday discussed policies they’re developing and impacts they’re observing following the agency’s rule that made perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), and their closely related forms hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or Superfund law.
The rule, which became effective in July, is ...
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