Register for May 8 Webinar: Reducing PFAS in Products – Progress and Challenges
Part of EPA’s Pollution Prevention in Action Webinar Series
Released April 17, 2024
Join Jennie Romer, EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention, on May 8, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, for the Reducing PFAS in Products: Progress and Challenges webinar. Learn about EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap and a new online tool for EPA’s Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing that highlights how standards and ecolabels address PFAS. Speakers from EPA, EPA grantees, and a nonprofit organization will discuss the progress they’ve made increasing the availability and use of products without PFAS, and the challenges that remain.
Hosted by: Jennie Romer, EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention
Speakers:
- Mike Schade, Toxic-Free Future
- Saskia van Bergen, Washington Department of Ecology
- Ning Ai, PhD, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Jenna Larkin, EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
- Zach Schafer, EPA Office of Water
This webinar is the third in the Pollution Prevention in Action Webinar Series, which examines key sustainability topics, from reducing or eliminating PFAS in products to source reduction solutions in industrial sectors, and features experts from businesses, nonprofit organizations, government, and academia. Webinars in the series will take place on the second Wednesday of each month through August and will focus on strategies to reduce, eliminate or prevent pollution before it is created.