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The EPA standard for PFAS in drinking water is now 4 parts per trillion ― down from 70 ppt ― that's four drops in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to an oft-cited statistic.
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that has extensively monitored PFAS pollution, issued filter recommendations to consumers last year after testing 10 commonly used at-home ...
In December 2023, as part of a four-year legal battle, the EPA banned Inhance, a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer that produces an estimated 200 million containers annually with a process that creates PFOA, from using the manufacturing process. [163] [164] In March 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned the ban.
In both muscle and liver samples, the highest level of PFAS chemical was PFOS, at 82.6 parts per billion (ppb) in a muscle sample and 2,970 ppb in a liver sample. [112] [113] 14 September 2021 EPA announced plans to revise effluent guidelines for businesses that conduct chromium electroplating operations and discharge PFAS in their wastewater ...
A new EU drinking water directive issued in 2020 adopted PFAS limit values. The limit values are 0.1 μg/L for the sum of 20 PFASs including PFHxS, and 0.5 μg/L for the sum of all PFASs. This directive is binding for all EU member nations. It is a minimum directive, and member states can elect to adopt stricter regulations. [19]
The PFAS bill would create grant programs aimed at providing aid to communities with contamination and limit the actions that the DNR could take to address contamination or hold polluters ...
ATSDR is an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services concerned with the effects of hazardous substances on human health. ATSDR is charged with assessing the presence and nature of health hazards at specific Superfund sites, as well as helping prevent or reduce further exposure and the illnesses that can result from such exposures. [7]
Feb. 15—As West Plains residents have learned more about how PFAS has seeped into their groundwater for decades, many are still in the dark about how much of the chemicals are in their body. Now ...