House Adds Test Method Reporting Mandate To Sweeping PFAS Bill

The comprehensive House-passed bill to strengthen regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) includes an amendment requiring companies to submit analytical reference standards used to test for the chemicals in a variety of media, backing environmentalists’ calls to add a similar mandate to EPA’s proposed TSCA reporting rule for the chemicals. Lawmakers approved H.R. 2467, also known as the PFAS Action Act, on July 21 by a 241-183 margin though its fate in the Senate is uncertain. The final bill...