PFAS

The Latest On: PFAS

February 4, 2020 | Press Release

New York Dept of Health Backtracks on Drinking Water Standards for PFOA, PFOS, 1,4-dioxane

Proposed ‘deferral’ system cuts public notification requirements from every three months to once a year; Deferral system could leave New Yorkers drinking toxic water for longer

February 3, 2020 | Legal Document

Earthjustice Comments on PFAS TRI ANPRM

Comments urging EPA to take swift action on gathering data, listing PFAS

February 3, 2020 | In the News: Huffington Post

The Environmental Protection Agency Keeps Approving Dangerous Chemicals

Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, Attorney, Northeast Office, Earthjustice: “When you’re in a hole, the first thing you’re supposed to do is stop digging.”

January 10, 2020 | Press Release: Victory

Earthjustice Celebra Aprobación Bipartidista de la Ley de Acción PFAS

Esta legislación abordaría la contaminación con PFAS por medio de grandes reformas

January 10, 2020 | Press Release: Victory

Earthjustice Celebrates Passage of Bipartisan PFAS Action Act

Bill would help to tackle PFAS contamination with sweeping new reforms

December 11, 2019 | Press Release

Earthjustice: PFAS Provisions in NDAA “Wholly Inadequate” to Protect People’s Health

National environmental law organization decries shortcomings in bill’s approach to harmful chemicals

November 25, 2019 | Legal Document

Comments on Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 14

Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2018-0618. These comments respond to EPA’s stated “next steps” for review of PFAS in industrial discharges and its discussion of an alleged lack of information affecting those steps.

November 18, 2019 | Feature

Toxic Taps

The military is running away from its legacy of PFAS-contaminated water.

October 8, 2019 | Legal Document

Joint comments filed urging EPA to prohibit commercialization of 3 new PFAS chemicals

Our organizations include community groups in areas affected by PFAS contamination, a national coalition of impacted communities, and local and national organizations advocating for strengthened protections against the risks posed by existing and new PFAS chemicals. The three premanufacture notices (“PMNs”) are merely the latest examples of new PFAS submitted for EPA approval without the studies and data required to evaluate their effects on human health and the environment and therefore without the information needed to support a determination that they are unlikely to pose an unreasonable risk.

September 19, 2019 | In the News: The Intercept

EPA Allowed Companies to Make 40 New PFAS Chemicals Despite Serious Risks

Eve Gartner, Attorney, Northeast Regional Office, Earthjustice: “EPA could have used its authority in a meaningful way to stem the tide of these chemicals into commerce, the environment and human bodies. And instead it has taken tiny baby steps that have really not been protective. This is a crisis that we will be dealing with for millennia.”