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PFAS have been a subject of multiple lawsuits worldwide. [247] [248] [249] In the United States, settlements stemming from PFAS pollution claims have reached $18 billion by 2024. [250] In 2023, Sweden's Supreme Court set a legal precedent by awarding damages to citizens who were supplied PFAS contaminated drinking water. [251]
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized limits on certain common types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water. It is the first time a nationwide limit on so-called forever ...
This was the first state to publish PFAS standards in the absence of federal regulations. [110] See U.S. state government actions . In 2018 the State of New York adopted drinking water standards of 10 ppt for PFOA and 10 ppt for PFOS, the most stringent such standards in the United States.
As of September 2022, there are 186 parties to the convention (185 states and the European Union). [1] Notable non-ratifying states include the United States, Israel, and Malaysia. The Stockholm Convention was adopted to EU legislation in Regulation (EC) No 850/2004. [3] In 2019, the latter was replaced by Regulation (EU) 2019/1021. [4]
The Rhode Island PFAS law required required all 170 of the state’s major drinking water suppliers to test for the chemicals by July 1 of last year and report their results to the health ...
Under the new law, manufacturers will be blocked from selling or distributing firefighter protective equipment containing "intentionally added PFAS" in the Bay State by 2027.
2017 PFAS are on the Government of Canada's 2019 chart of substances prohibited by the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) and by the Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations, 2012. These substances are under these regulations because they are "among the most harmful" and "have been declared toxic to the environment ...
Attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject proposed $10.3 billion agreement.