Agency Will Move Forward with Plans to Propose Weakening some Biden-Era PFAS Limits, Official Says
The agency will keep limits for PFOA and PFOS while rescinding some rarer PFAS standards and giving utilities until 2031 to comply.
- On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to rescind and revisit certain limits on "forever chemicals" issued by the Biden administration, while maintaining standards for PFOA and PFOS with a delayed 2031 compliance deadline.
- Jessica Kramer, head of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water, stated the Biden administration allegedly failed to follow the correct legal process, necessitating rules that are "legally defensible."
- EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin previously described the deadline delay as "common-sense flexibility," while the agency plans to rescind limits on GenX substances found in North Carolina and a mixture of other PFAS types before reconsidering them.
- Melanie Benesh, vice president of government affairs with the Environmental Working Group, argued the move likely violates the Safe Drinking Water Act, noting that PFAS treatment ensures other harmful substances are filtered out.
- The public will have a chance to comment before finalization, as this shift coincides with scrutiny from the Make America Healthy Again movement championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding PFAS regulations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will soon propose softening Biden-era limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, delaying but keeping tough standards for two common types and rescinding limits on some rarer forms of the substance, according to an EPA official. The proposal will start the formal process of rolling back parts of the first-ever limits on PFAS in drinking water finalized during former President Joe Biden’s administr…
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Agency will move forward with plans to propose weakening some Biden-era PFAS limits, official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will soon propose softening Biden-era limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, delaying but keeping tough standards for two common types and rescinding limits
EPA Is One Step Closer to Scaling Back PFAS MCLs
On May 1, 2026, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed its interagency review and cleared two EPA proposed rules that would scale back the Biden-era PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR). As we previously reported, the proposed rules would extend the compliance deadline for PFOA and PFOS maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) by two years and rescind the MCLs for PFNA, PFHxS, HFPO-DA (commonly known as GenX…
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