In the two days before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule setting drinking water standards for five per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the EPA issued updated guidance on destroying PFAS waste and a document directing federal facilities to no longer use cleaning products containing PFAS chemicals.
EPA issued the guidance document on April 8, 2024, and the directive on April 9 to reduce “the potential for these chemicals to enter the environment” by helping federal agencies, states, other agencies, and private industry to destroy or dispose of items containing PFAS chemicals, as well as ending their use in cleaning materials, said Matt Klasen, manager of the EPA’s PFAS Council.