Bills that have cleared their House and Senate committee hearings without opposition would block the state from setting or enforcing cleanups for hazardous “PFAS” chemicals that are used in household items like stain-resistant carpets.
Response — But a national environmental group representative on Monday called the legislation “wimpy” because she said it largely relies on the EPA rather than the state to take action when she said the federal agency has shown little willingness to do so. “EPA is being a wimp but Florida is being wimpier,” Kyla Bennett of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a government environmental watchdog group, told POLITICO.
