Another State Proposes A PFAS Limit While EPA Tries To Catch Up

Bloomberg Environment reports the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will set a drinking water limit for two of the thousands of "forever chemicals" known as PFAS joining several other states that have already set limits of their own.   

In the meantime, after four years of what it described as supporting the states during the Trump Administration, EPA is working as fast as it can to set a limit of its own under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.  (see also https://insights.mintz.com/post/102h9t9/as-the-pfas-panic-continues-epa-tries-to-keep-up-with-the-states, November 2, 2021)

EPA's PFAS Road Map tells us that despite the Herculean EPA effort now underway we shouldn't expect to see a Federal PFAS drinking water standard earlier than the fall of 2023, two years from now.