Senate Support For Targeted PFAS Liability Waivers May Be Growing

Support may be growing for including targeted Superfund liability relief for “passive receivers” of PFAS contamination in the Senate environment committee’s pending bipartisan PFAS bill, sources following the issue say, even as environmentalists are urging senators and the Biden administration against adopting such carve-outs. The Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee has been at an inflection point, weighing competing arguments for and against such liability exemptions as well as how broadly to define per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in...