The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.EPA) acting Administrator, Andrew Wheeler, held a press conference at EPA Region III in Horsham, Pennsylvania on Feb. 14, 2019, to announce the U.S.EPA’s PFAS Action Plan. Wheeler indicated that similar announcements of and press conferences relating to the PFAS Action Plan were being held simultaneously in each of the U.S.EPA’s ten regional offices, underlying the importance of the announcement. Wheeler stated that the Agency’s plan was the most comprehensive cross agency plan introduced by the U.S.EPA.
For further information and background on PFAS, please see our November PFAS alert.
Acting Administrator Wheeler highlighted five key elements of the PFAS Action Plan:
Godfrey & Kahn anticipates hosting one or more “webinars” in the coming months on updates to PFAS regulation at the federal level and in the state of Wisconsin and specifically related to laboratory protocols related to analysis of groundwater and other media for PFAS. For further information regarding this update, the PFAS Action Plan or the upcoming webinars, please contact Art Harrington, Ned Witte or Daniel Narvey.
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