Quote-Unquote: First-Time PFAS limits, their costs and benefits

What they’re saying. EPA sets enforceable limits for six PFAS, including two rated ‘likely carcinogenic’ : “. . . EPA evaluated quantifiable and nonquantifiable health risk reduction benefits and costs associated with the final [National Primary Drinking Water Regulations]. At a two percent discount rate, the EPA estimates the quantifiable annual benefits of the final rule will be $1,549.40 million per year and the quantifiable costs of the rule will be $1,548.64 million per year. The EPA’s quantified...