EPA now requires businesses to track and submit data on another “forever chemical.”
The agency announced a final rule adding sodium perfluorohexanesulfonate (PFHxS-Na) to its Toxics Release Inventory, a list of hundreds of chemicals subject to reporting requirements.
PFHxS-Na is the 206th PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, added to the TRI since 2019, when Congress passed a law that PFAS with toxicity values be automatically added to the mandatory reporting list.
“This addition ensures communities have the right to know what chemicals are being used and released in their neighborhoods,” EPA Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Doug Troutman said in a news release. “Transparency is a critical step toward protecting public health and the environment and holding polluters accountable.”
