'Today's historic announcement sends an unmistakable message: They were poisoning us, it must stop, and they must pay,' said MarkRuffalo.
Arguing the Biden administration's new rule isn't enough, campaigners said,"It's time for EPA to address the whole PFAS class."The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two commonly used"forever chemicals" as hazardous under federal law, a long-awaited step that green groups welcomed as important while also warning it is inadequate to address the scale of toxic pollution caused by the increasingly ubiquitous substances.
"Today's historic announcement sends an unmistakable message: They were poisoning us, it must stop, and they must pay." "This rulemaking would increase transparency around releases of these harmful chemicals and help to hold polluters accountable for cleaning up their contamination," the EPA said, noting that the rule would,"in certain circumstances, facilitate making the polluter pay by allowing EPA to seek to recover cleanup costs from a potentially responsible party or to require such a party to conduct the cleanup.
The agency said it intends to publish the proposed rule in the Federal Register in the coming weeks, starting a 60-day public comment period during which the chemical lobby is expected to fight back against the new designation of common PFAS, mostly nondegradable substances that have been linked to
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