Official Says EPA Will Reopen Cleanups For PFAS On ‘Case-By-Case Basis’

An EPA regional official told a recent waste conference that the agency will decide whether to reopen Superfund cleanup decisions at PFAS-contaminated sites “case-by-case” as it moves forward with designating the chemicals as hazardous constituents under the waste law -- a move an industry attorney says could have “monumental” impacts. During an Oct. 27 session of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials’ (ASTSWMO) annual conference in Arlington, VA, EPA’s Charlotte Mooney, chief of the Resource Conservation...