This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The EPA is rolling back drinking water limits for 4 PFAS.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced significant changes coming for two of its major rules that ...

The EPA announced last week it was pushing back deadlines and canceling regulations for several forever chemicals. What that means for Bucks County: ...

A year later, the Trump Administration’s newly appointed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency would uphold ...

University teams studying how ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate soil and groundwater, including projects focused on farms, lose ...

Developing ELGs: EPA intends to continue the Biden Administration’s efforts to develop Effluent Limit Guidelines (ELGs) for ...

In April 2024, the EPA moved to begin cleaning up the PFAS mess. It adopted rules setting limits on contamination for five ...

In a move aimed at both safeguarding public health and ensuring practical implementation, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

On May 12, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim final rule significantly extending the ...

Administrator Zeldin outlined the agency’s PFAS plan in broad strokes, EPA provided more detail on how it intends to proceed ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans May 14 to rescind drinking water limits it set on four “forever chemicals” last spring. A USA TODAY analysis of EPA data shows the chemicals ...

The original rule covered six common PFAS contaminants, including PFOA, a known human carcinogen, and PFOS, a likely carcinogen. The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed ...