POTWs’ Legal Uncertainty Drives Fear Over PFAS Superfund Designation

As Congress weighs defense authorization legislation that would designate perfluorinated chemicals as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, wastewater utilities are opposing the language, fearing it would impose significant liability due to the presence of the chemicals in the biosolids they generate. Some industry officials say they are seeking to kill the House-passed amendment, which would require EPA to declare within one year that all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and...