EPA Urged To Use Combustor Rule To Gather PFAS Data For Future Limits

Environmentalists are urging EPA to use its recently proposed rule toughening emissions standards for large municipal waste combustors (LMWC) to gather PFAS data that could be used to regulate the chemicals in the future, though they say the agency should regulate several other pollutants in any final LMWC rule. “EPA should use this rulemaking opportunity to gather data on existing emissions of PFAS to support a future rulemaking requiring emissions reduction,” Colin Parts, an attorney with Earthjustice’s Community Partnerships Program,...