Former Official Says PFAS Patchwork Shows Failures Of TSCA Preemption

A former EPA toxics chief says Michigan’s new executive order limiting purchases of products made with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) not only expands a nationwide patchwork of state-level PFAS policies, but shows that the reformed TSCA’s preemption provision “works on paper, but rarely works in practice.” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) recently ordered state procurement officials to give preference to items “that do not contain intentionally added PFAS,” and to only purchase goods that do contain them “where there...