EPA Rejects Comment Period Extensions For PFAS TRI Rule Proposal

EPA has rejected industry requests to extend the deadline for commenting on the agency’s proposed rule to significantly boost the number of PFAS required to be reported under the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), despite appeals that the Dec. 9 deadline was too short to examine the rule’s technical aspects and its far-reaching impacts. “EPA has responded to the requests for extension it has received to date,” an EPA spokesperson told Inside PFAS Policy Oct. 31 when asked if the...