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.
Coterie Baby Inc., a self-described high performance baby care product company, says a consumer lacks standing to bring a false advertising suit alleging the company deceptively marketed its products as “PFAS-free.”
In the final days of the Trump administration, a political appointee at the EPA ordered a last-minute review of the hazards of a “forever chemical,” triggering delay, confusion, and significant changes to a nearly final work product, the agency’s inspector general found in a Friday report.
The Yorba Linda Water District in Orange County, Calif., is so proud of its $28 million PFAS filtration plant, considered the largest in the US, that it hosts regular tours of Boy Scouts, school groups, and on Monday, a group from South Korea.
The US Chamber of Commerce and two other trade groups are opposing in D.C. federal court the EPA’s designation of the two commonly detected “forever chemicals” as hazardous Superfund substances.
Illuminati Labs LLC, which does business as RiseWell, deceptively advertised its mineral toothpaste for kids as natural and safe to swallow despite containing high levels of toxic perfluoroalkyl substances, a proposed class action alleges.
States across the US are working to regulate and legislate “forever chemicals” with efforts from funding research to creating new environmental standards. Bloomberg Law is tracking these state-level regulatory and legislative developments in the PFAS State Activity Tracker.
The EPA says more than 600 PFAS chemicals are in the marketplace in the U.S. While states are racing to regulate PFAS, while the federal government lags.
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