EDC Policy Updates

Green groups say European Commission is ‘chief roadblock’ to its own plans, as report finds poor progress four years on.

Commons committee heard from residents of Yorkshire town with the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in the UK.

While most appointees are academic scientists, U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin also named employees of a company that makes forever chemicals.

Critics say North Carolina’s PFAS plan lacks strict limits and polluter accountability, leaving communities with ongoing contamination risks.

As federal funds lapse and state grants expire, dozens of Maine schools, mobile home parks, and homeowners could be left to pay for PFAS filtration alone.

An Illinois bill would require licensed pesticide users to notify nearby schools, parks, or childcare centers at least 24 hours before applying certain chemicals.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators.

When Donald Trump took office and began leveling trade threats against Canada, fears grew that environmental rules might be scrapped to avoid conflict.

In an exception to his blitz on environmental regulations, EPA chief Lee Zeldin is delaying the nod to PFAS over fears of angering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s movement.

In a first, the Environmental Protection Agency has included microplastics and pharmaceuticals on its draft list of substances in public drinking water that are unregulated but merit further scientific scrutiny.

Staff expressed frustration with how the transfers are being handled and perceive them as yet another measure to traumatize the workforce.

A progressive lawmaker and a “Make America Healthy Again” activist join forces to oppose proposed federal limits on pesticide regulation and liability.

The nation’s top agricultural producer could ban pesticides with PFAS after researchers found the “forever chemicals” on 40 percent of the conventional produce grown in the state.

Virginia’s new legislation won’t stop these chemicals from being produced and used in consumer products, or from getting into waterways, but could reduce how much PFAS gets into the food produced on Virginia farms, columnist Ivy Main writes.

The GOP-authored legislation passed the Senate in March after years of back and forth between Governor Evers and Republican lawmakers over how to spend the PFAS funding first set aside in the 2023-25 state budget.

Federal regulators are moving to add microplastics to a list of drinking water contaminants marked for research, funding and possible regulation in the future.

The move drew praise from leaders of the Make America Healthy Again movement who had recently criticized the agency’s handling of toxic chemicals.

Amid growing concern about invisible pollutants in tap water, federal regulators are taking an initial step that could shape future oversight of plastic particles and drug residues.

The Environmental Protection Agency may exempt plastic waste pyrolysis from Clean Air Act rules, alarming environmental advocates who warn the move could increase toxic pollution.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that critics say would block Kentuckians from suing pesticide companies for failing to warn of their products’ hazards.