Industry Raises Legal Warnings Over ATSDR's Strict Draft PFAS Findings

Industry and business groups are questioning the science used by a federal health agency to derive draft toxicity values for four perfluorinated chemicals, two of which adopt more conservative values than those developed by EPA, and warning that the values may be vulnerable to legal challenges. But environmentalists are generally applauding the findings although they say the agency should address the chemicals as a class, while some states are asking for more clarity and advice on how the values should...