First-Time FIFRA Petition Urges Broad EPA Overhaul Of PFAS Regulation

A coalition of environmental and other groups is petitioning EPA in a first-of-its-kind push under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to aggressively address PFAS in pesticides and their containers, charging the agency with failing to meet the law’s threshold requirement to avoid “unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.” The July 22 petition , led by the Center for Food Safety (CFS), outlines numerous immediate and longer-term steps EPA should take beginning with canceling currently registered per- and...