EPA is collecting data on “forever chemicals” in wastewater that eventually make their way to rivers and streams across the nation, a move that could inform future limits on the substances.
While the data collection is a welcome step, EPA should have begun gathering the information “decades ago,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA official who now leads science policy at the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The agency also already has the authority to regulate PFAS in biosolids, she said.