EPA hit a PFAS speed bump at the White House Office of Management and Budget but don’t expect a detour!

Article By Jeffrey R. Porter Mintz Viewpoints  Related Practices & Jurisdictions  Environmental, Energy & Resources  Administrative & Regulatory  All Federal Tuesday, August 23, 2022 EPA has been cleared by the White House Office of Management and Budget to list two of the hundreds of chemicals collectively known as PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the Federal […]

EPA hit a PFAS speed bump at the White House Office of Management and Budget but don’t expect a detour!

Article By Jeffrey R. Porter Mintz Viewpoints  Related Practices & Jurisdictions  Environmental, Energy & Resources  Administrative & Regulatory  All Federal Tuesday, August 23, 2022 EPA has been cleared by the White House Office of Management and Budget to list two of the hundreds of chemicals collectively known as PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the Federal […]

EPA Urged To Quickly Issue Plan For PFAS Superfund ‘Substance’ Listing

August 3, 2022 InsideEPA.com Dozens of House lawmakers and environmentalists are urging EPA to quickly propose two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for listing as “hazardous substances” under the Superfund law, arguing the move alone would not ban the use of the toxic chemicals but would be a “first step” to holding polluters accountable. The […]

EPA Poised To Propose Major Rules On PFAS CERCLA Designation, RMP

August 2, 2022 InsideEPA.com EPA is poised to propose its long-awaited rule to designate two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as Superfund “hazardous substances” as well as revisions to the Trump-era Risk Management Program (RMP) rule governing chemical facility safety after they cleared review by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  OMB […]

NAS Advises Blood Testing For People With Elevated PFAS Exposures

August 2, 2022 InsideEPA.com A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel is recommending that health clinicians offer patients blood testing if they are likely to have elevated exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) due to work or community exposures and advises federal agencies to launch research into PFAS in breastmilk and formula.  Such recommendations […]

Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn

Common chemicals sprayed on many crops each year are cloaked in bureaucratic uncertainties  By Meg Wilcox on June 15, 2022 Scientists have been raising growing concerns for decades over the use of toxic “forever chemicals,” so called because their strong molecular bonds can take hundreds of years to completely break down in the environment. Widely […]

Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a multiethnic cohort

23 June 2022 Goodrich JA, Walker D, Lin X, Wang H, Lim T, McConnell R, Conti DV, Chatzi L, Setiawan VW, Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2022.100550 Abstract:  Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of persistent organic pollutants, is ubiquitous. Animal studies suggest that PFAS may increase risk of fatty liver and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) via […]