The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country’s Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as “forever chemicals.”
The rule will require companies to report leaks of two of the most commonly used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and help pay to clean up existing contamination.
The EPA separately last week announced its first-ever drinking water standards to guard against PFAS pollution.
The new rule targets contamination from two PFAS known as PFOA and PFOS.
Crazy, something might actually get done for this? This would affect just about every military installation (and the water on the that everyone “knows” not to drink), wouldn’t it?
Military installations - including accomodation - are often exempt from these kinds of rules so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
You’re not wrong…