Previous Actions to Address PFAS
PFAS News Releases
This page lists EPA actions related to PFAS prior to January 2021. Learn about current EPA Actions.
- Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers Point Source Category
- Interim Guidance on Destroying and Disposing of Certain PFAS and PFAS-Containing Materials That Are Not Consumer Products (December 18, 2020)
- Memorandum: Recommendations from the PFAS NPDES Regional Coordinators Committee Interim Strategy for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Federally Issued National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permits (pdf)
- PFAS Action Plan: Program Update February 2020 (pdf)
- Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated with PFOA and PFOS (December 2019)
- Directive to prioritize federal research on impacts to agriculture and rural economies in EPA's PFAS Action Plan (pdf)
- EPA’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Action Plan (pdf)
- Released the Human Health Toxicity Assessment of PFBS (November 21, 2018)
- Developed draft human health toxicity values for GenX (November 14, 2018)
- PFAS Community Engagement Events (Summer of 2018)
- National Leadership Summit (May 22-23, 2018)
- Released EPA's Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOS/PFOA (May 26, 2016)
- Developed a laboratory method for measuring PFOS, PFOA and 12 other PFAS in drinking water (EPA Method 537) (October 7, 2015)
- Expanded the current drinking water Method 537 to include GenX chemicals and additional PFAS (November 2, 2018)
- Conducted monitoring for PFAS in drinking water under the third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (May 2, 2012)
- Collected scientific literature via HERO on PFAS toxicity (ongoing)
- Identified the universe of PFAS currently being manufactured and used (ongoing)
- Created a PFOA Stewardship Program with industry to phase out manufacturing of PFOA (2006)
- Updating EPA's Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB) for technologies that can be used in drinking water treatment facilities, in water systems in hospitals, individual buildings or homes. (ongoing)
- Continuing site-specific technical assistance to identify and reduce PFAS exposures (ongoing)