Environmentalists Say Disposal Guide Findings Reinforce Need For PFAS Ban

Environmentalists are pointing to EPA’s newly updated PFAS disposal guidance and its findings that uncertainties and data gaps remain over disposal technologies’ protectiveness to underscore their argument that EPA should ban production and use of all unnecessary PFAS uses and set strict limits on discharges to air, water and land. EPA April 9 issued its long-awaited update to its interim guidance on destruction and disposal technologies for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), highlighting methods such as interim storage, permitted hazardous...