Senate Hearing Will Highlight Lingering Differences In CERCLA PFAS Debate

A March 20 Senate environment committee hearing will probe the impacts of EPA’s plan to designate the two most-studied PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the Superfund law, featuring in a public forum the stark differences among stakeholders over targeted Superfund liability exemptions that have stalled a bipartisan PFAS bill for months. The Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee March 13 announced Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) will hold the hearing to examine the impacts of EPA’s proposal to designate perfluorooctanoic acid...