Some environmental groups were disappointed the administration didn’t go further in its Monday announcement plans.
A group of local, state and national government natural resource and environmental professionals panned Biden’s PFAS plan as “woefully inadequate” and effectively “kicking the can down the road.”
The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said the plan is weak because it promises future regulatory limits on only PFOA and PFOS in drinking water, and toxicity standards for only seven PFAS chemicals; relies on voluntary stewardship programs that “consistently failed” the public and lays out no mechanism for safely managing the generation, transportation and disposal of waste contaminated with PFAS.
