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Maine placed restrictions on AFFF use that took effect January 1, 2022, banning its use in training and its sale and distribution. Prior to that date, it was widely used in municipal, airport and ...
June 6, 2019: Taxpayer First Act of 2019: This bill revises provisions relating to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its customer service, enforcement procedures, cybersecurity and identity protection, management of information technology, and use of electronic systems. Signed by President Trump July 1, 2019. H.R. 2107: April 4, 2019
August 1, 2024 at 2:43 AM In the early morning hours of Aug. 1, House Democrats decided to move on a bill to reduce toxic chemicals known as PFAS in firefighters' protective equipment.
On April 18, 2018, the bill passed the House of Representatives unanimously. [9] On July 19, 2018, the Senate introduced their own bipartisan IRS reform bill. [10] One week later, Senators Portman and Cardin introduced their own competing IRS reform bill. [11] Neither of the Senate bills were passed at the conclusion of the 115th Congress.
Pacheco counted the number of days his PFAS bill has sat in Senate Ways and Means: 239 days, as of last Thursday. He offered his bill, to ban PFAS-emitting construction pipes, as a potential ...
In 2021, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut proposed the No PFAS in Cosmetics Act in the United States Senate. [137] It was also introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Michigan Representative Debbie Dingell, [138] but the Republican Party, supported by the U.S. chemical industry ...
A new EU drinking water directive issued in 2020 adopted PFAS limit values. The limit values are 0.1 μg/L for the sum of 20 PFASs including PFHxS, and 0.5 μg/L for the sum of all PFASs. This directive is binding for all EU member nations. It is a minimum directive, and member states can elect to adopt stricter regulations. [19]
Janet Trafton Mills (born December 30, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 75th governor of Maine since January 2019. She previously served as the Maine Attorney General on two occasions. A member of the Democratic Party, Mills was first elected attorney general by the Maine Legislature on January 6, 2009, succeeding G ...