EPA, Congress works to exempt farmers from PFAS liability

The Environmental Protection Agency is reaffirming its focus on regulating forever chemicals will fall on the manufacturing and users that produce related products.

Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore tells Brownfield …

“We are working on an enforcement, discretion guideline for wastewater treatment plants and for agriculture, because farmers aren’t responsible if PFAS are in biosolids that are spread on farm fields and wastewater treatment plants, aren’t responsible, it’s coming in from the sources,” she explains.

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