U.S. EPA Announces PFAS Action Plan

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler recently announced the agency’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Action Plan. The plan responds to extensive public interest and input the agency has received over the past year and represents the first time EPA has built a multimedia, multiprogram, national communication and research plan to address an emerging environmental challenge like PFAS. EPA’s Action Plan identifies both short-term solutions for addressing these chemicals and long-term strategies that aim to provide tools and technologies states, tribes and local communities need to provide clean and safe drinking water to their residents and to address