A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee is set to weigh who should be shielded from having to fund “forever chemicals” cleanups.
Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and Environment Subcommittee Chair Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) announced a hearing to consider “the impact of” and “potential policy responses to Superfund liability concerns.”
“We’ve heard from many stakeholders who do not produce or use PFAS, but encounter these substances passively through their essential work managing residential waste, growing food, or bringing clean water to our homes,” Guthrie and Palmer said in a joint statement.
The root of such concerns stem from a Biden-era rule designating the two most-studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — PFOA and PFOS — as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law.
