Environmentalists Give Biden Mixed Reviews On Meeting PFAS Goals

As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden pledged to quickly regulate PFAS in drinking water and set first-time cleanup standards for the persistent chemicals, but as president, Biden has found that the complexities surrounding PFAS contamination and competing interests affected by regulating these chemicals has slowed those initiatives. That’s the view of environmentalists who voice frustration with the pace of the Biden administration’s efforts to address widespread per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination, while continuing to heap praise on the aspirational...