[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Legislation designating PFOA and PFOS "hazardous substances"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The real story behind PFAS and Congress’ effort to clean up contamination

Opinion by Jim Jones
Environmental Health News
July 20, 2021

When the U.S. House of Representatives takes up the bipartisan PFAS Action Act this week, some members of Congress may contend that the bill would ban some uses of PFAS.

In particular, some members of Congress may argue that designating PFOA and PFOS as "hazardous substances" under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Liability, and Compensation Act, or CERCLA, will ban the use of these two chemicals from medical devices, semiconductors, lithium batteries and even surgical masks.

This is not correct.

First, PFOA and PFOS are no longer used in commerce.

As an Assistant Administrator for the EPA, I was involved in the implementation of a 2006 stewardship agreement with the chemical industry to phase out the use of these two members of this class of fluorinated chemicals. Simply put, as a result of this agreement, PFOA and PFOS are no longer used in these products or take make these products.


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For the entire column, see
https://www.ehn.org/congress-pfas-2653852713/critical-step-to-clean-up-pfas-pfoa

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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