Environmentalists Warn House Cuts To EPA Budget Will Impede PFAS Efforts

Environmentalists are raising alarms over House Republicans’ efforts to slash EPA’s budget in fiscal year 2024, saying the cuts will undermine work by the agency to tackle PFAS, including the development of technology-based discharge limits for some industrial sectors, conducting research and cleaning up contaminated sites. “The PFAS crisis is outrunning the federal response,” Environmental Working Group (EWG) Vice President of Federal Affairs John Reeder said in an Aug. 29 statement. “Congress should not make the crisis worse by cutting...