City of Redding Water Utility Manager Josh Watkins told KRCR that materials with PFAS can potentially get into groundwater ...

January 30, 2024 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been moving forward on its pledge to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are a family of more than 9,000 ...

EPA Sets Drinking Water MCLs for PFAS. On April 10, the EPA announced the final national primary drinking water regulation (NPDWR) to establish legally enforceable maximum contaminant levels (MCLs ...

Among other things, the EPA set drinking water maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for certain PFAS compounds found in drinking water, designated perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane ...

New Jersey sets an MCL of 13 parts per trillion for PFOS and 14 parts per trillion for PFOA, while Pennsylvania’s MCL is 14 parts per trillion and 18 parts per trillion, respectively, for those two ...

Extended Compliance Deadlines: The EPA plans to develop a rulemaking to provide additional time for water systems to comply with the PFOA and PFOS MCLs, potentially extending the deadline to 2031.

EPA proposes very low nationwide PFAS limits for drinking water. Updated: Mar. 15, 2023, 10:30 a.m. ... The limits, known as Maximum Contaminant Levels, or MCLs, ...

The finalized rule announced by the EPA will subject six PFAS compounds to maximum contaminant levels, or MCLs, which set enforceable limits on the concentration of the compounds in drinking water.

U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, citing concerns about a local spike in PFAS ...

EPA has finalized the legally enforceable levels, called Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), for five individual PFAS, including the most frequently found PFOA and PFOS, the agency said.