Chamber Seeks Amicus Status In Arguing PFAS Water Rule Too Costly

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking a federal appeals court for permission to share additional arguments backing drinking water utilities and the chemical industry’s challenge of EPA’s landmark rule regulating PFAS in drinking water, with the Chamber arguing EPA failed to properly assess costs and benefits and used deficient science to craft the rule. EPA “failed to accurately assess the likely costs and consequences of its rule,” the Chamber says in an Oct. 16 amicus brief filed in...