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Lara Beaven of Inside EPA reports House Appropriations Committee intends to give EPA every dollar requested to implement wide-ranging plan to address ubiquitous forever chemicals, PFAS. EPA plan was presented in PFAS Road Map, calls for PFAS regulation by most divisions.

The group of chemicals known as PFAS are high on 2022 federal regulatory agenda as implementation of EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap proceeds. One potential consequence will be new additions to California’s Prop 65 List of chemicals known to cause cancer, reproductive harm.

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The Department of Public Health is expected to make a decision on a final remediation...

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has agreed to destroy more than 3 million dried...

EPA set new lifetime health advisories for four per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances PFAS in some instances at levels lower than those that can be detected through laboratory testing. Health advisories listed below. EPA’s previous health advisories for PFOA and PFOS were 70 ppt.

Near zero updated interim advisory levels for Perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA and Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid PFOS that are not only orders of magnitude below previously established levels, but that are also below detectable levels and were issued in advance of EPA peer review

The federal government has new advisories on PFAS, which can put human health at risk in a list of ways, but so far only states are regulating the chemicals.

A study found middle-aged women with higher blood concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were 71% more likely to develop high blood pressure than their peers.

EPA has decided to dramatically decrease the Obama Administration EPA health advisory levels for certain PFAS that already had them and to do so before finalizing its PFAS Toxicity Assessment, some so low that they can't be reliably detected.