EPA Eyes Individual PFAS But Sees Limits In Chemical-Specific Approach

June 14, 2018
Even as EPA moves to assess and possibly regulate several individual perfluorinated chemicals, the agency's top policy official on the issue is acknowledging that given the thousands of chemicals in the class, they will eventually have to be considered in groups rather than individually, an approach that the agency has previously struggled to advance. The progress made on individual compounds “doesn't really even begin to tell us the whole story that we need to understand,” Peter Grevatt, director of EPA's...


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