The rule would have further monitored PFAS and other chemicals from plastics used in chemical recycling. The plastic industry ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has ...

Olson believes the EPA’s alterations to the PFAS rules are in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act’s “anti-backsliding provision,” which says any revision the EPA proposes to a ...

The first full-time government employee in the United States whose job is focused solely on dealing with PFAS works on ...

The Biden administration previously set regulations on six types of PFAS chemicals, looking to bring their levels to near zero in drinking water.. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) only ...

The EPA plans to scrap limits on three types of PFAS, some of which are less well known. They include GenX substances commonly found in North Carolina as well as substances called PFHxS and PFNA.

EPA plans action to address PFAS, including ‘polluter pays’ Agency to move forward with cleanup of 'forever chemicals' in areas where drinking water shows contamination ...

FILE - Logan Feeney pours a water sample with forever chemicals, known as PFAS, into a container for research, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati.

After addressing a number of other programs over the first 100 days of the new administration, on April 28, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally addressed PFAS. Administrator ...

Until now, questions swirled about the Trump administration’s direction on PFAS. EPA did not reference PFAS in its March 12, 2025, deregulatory policy statement, fueling speculation.

Massachusetts released its own regulations for PFAS in drinking water in 2020, and MassDEP is now reviewing the EPA’s proposed changes to understand how public water suppliers will be impacted.