Colorado Cases Test States’ Ability To Set PFAS Limits In Water Permits

A Colorado administrative court will hear a pair of competing challenges to a water discharge permit state regulators issued for an oil refinery, in a test of states’ ability to include PFAS limits in such permits as EPA is continuing to press states to do so. In the dual appeals, environmentalists are seeking stricter per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) discharge limits while Suncor Energy Inc., the owner of the refinery, is seeking to ease PFAS monitoring terms and the compliance...