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A bipartisan group of 132 House lawmakers is urging President Joe Biden to take immediate steps to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) while also readying legislation on a range of additional items, part of a three-part strategy to tackle PFAS through legislation, policy-making and public education.

EPA’s research office is planning to ask its external advisory panel later this year to review the agency’s research plan for addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a variety of media, with the agency hopeful it will have some screening results by then to guide risk assessment as well as some data on PFAS destruction technologies.

More than two dozen California environmental justice (EJ) groups are urging Michael Regan, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be EPA administrator, to reject consideration of California toxics department official Grant Cope to lead EPA’s Office of Land and Management (OLEM), citing equity concerns.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit at recent oral argument in tort litigation over the Gold King mine spill probed whether the court should apply statute of limitations established by the state where the spill originated or by the state where the case is proceeding in federal district court.