EPA's PFAS Action Plan

February 14, 2019 - EPA's PFAS Action Plan responds to extensive public interest and input the agency has received over the past year and represents the first time EPA has built a multi-media, multi-program, national communication and research plan to address an emerging environmental challenge like PFAS. Read more.

PFAS Research

• November 21, 2018 - EPA releases new tools to test and treat additional PFAS, including GenX, in drinking water
• Learn about EPA's work in Reducing PFAS in Drinking Water with Treatment Technologies
• Visit EPA's Water Treatability Database

• Understand how EPA Reseachers Use Innovative Approach to Find PFAS in the Environment

GenX and PFBS Draft Toxicity Assessments

November 14, 2018 - EPA requests Public Review and Comment by January 22,  2019, on Draft Human Health Toxicity Assessments for Hexafluoropropylene Oxide Dimer Acid and its Ammonium Salt (GenX Chemicals) and for Perfluorobutane Sulfonic Acid (PFBS) and Related Compound Potassium Perfluorobutane Sulfonate".  Learn more.

Supporting States, Tribes, and Communities on PFAS

Through EPA’s Technical Support Centers, states, tribes, and local governments request help from EPA in identifying, monitoring, cleaning up, and reducing PFAS occurrence at sites around the country. Learn more.