Industry Calls EPA RCRA PFAS Listing Rule Premature, Seeks Withdrawal

Industry-backed groups are calling for EPA to back away from listing nine PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” arguing the agency’s proposed listing rule is overreaching and premature and lacks scientific support, a robust cost-benefit analysis and clear criteria for listing. The draft rule, which EPA proposed Jan. 31 , “is overbroad as well as arbitrary and capricious as it would add nine PFAS, their salts, and structural isomers to the list of hazardous constituents --...