[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Change Is Coming" under Biden

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS Under Biden Administration – Change Is Coming

By John Gardella
National Law Review
December 18, 2020


With just over thirty days until President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris are sworn into office, the Biden-Harris team continues to work on the many aspects of transition to ensure that change can commence immediately after swearing in. While the United States and other countries wait to see the areas that will remain the focus of the Biden-Harris leadership, there is little question that one of the top campaigning issues – the environment – will remain a key focal point of the administration’s efforts in the next four years.

While there are hundreds of ways that environmental policies will likely change in the next four years, this second article in a three-part series (our first article focused on climate change) takes a deeper dive into how the administration will change the PFAS landscape and, in doing so, will significantly impact many environmental and compliance issues for businesses. These impacts will be felt well beyond industries that use PFAS directly in their manufacturing processes, and companies of any type would be well advised to take a closer look at how PFAS under Biden’s administration might impact them.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/pfas-under-biden-administration-change-coming

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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