Petitioners Say EPA’s RCRA Plan For Addressing PFAS ‘Not Enough’

New Mexico and the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which had petitioned EPA to list all PFAS as “hazardous waste” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), say the agency’s alternative proposal to list nine PFAS as “hazardous constituents” fails to fully address their petitions. While the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) supports EPA’s proposal to list nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as RCRA hazardous constituents, it says in April 8 comments to the agency...