From Inside PFAS Policy

States, Industry Urge EPA To Reconsider Studying PFAS ELGs For Oil Sector

January 30, 2025
The oil and gas industry and key state regulators are urging the Trump EPA to reconsider a Biden-era plan to study whether a subset of the sector, as well as certain wastewater plants, should be subject to PFAS effluent limits, questioning the agency’s prioritization of the sector as well as the need for technology-based limits. “Considering the high numerical (low priority) ranking of the Oil and Gas Extraction Category, we suggest that being ranked number 57 in priority of concern...


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