Previous Actions to Address PFAS
PFAS News Releases
This page lists EPA actions related to PFAS prior to January 2025. Learn about current EPA Actions.
- EPA's PFAS Strategic Roadmap: Third Annual Progress Report (pdf) (November 2024)
- EPA’s Final Ambient Water Quality Criteria and Benchmarks for Certain PFAS (September 2024)
- Final CERCLA Hazardous Substances Designations for PFOA and PFOS (April 2024)
- First-Ever National Drinking Water Standard for PFAS (April 2024)
- Updated Interim Guidance on PFAS Destruction and Disposal (April 2024)
- Action to Cut PFAS from U.S. Government Custodial Contracts (April 2024)
- Proposed Resource Conservation and Recovery Act PFAS-Related Rules (February 2024)
- Final EPA Method 1633, a method to test for 40 PFAS in wastewater, surface water, groundwater, soil, biosolids, sediment, landfill leachate, and fish tissue. (January 2024)
- Final EPA Method 1621, which can broadly screen for the presence of chemical substances that contain carbon-fluorine bonds, including PFAS, in wastewater. (January 2024)
- Other Test Method (OTM)-50, which measures 30 volatile fluorinated compounds in air. (January 2024)
- Requiring Toxics Release Inventory Reporting for Seven Additional PFAS (January 2024)
- Final Significant New Use Rule for Inactive PFAS (January 2024)
- EPA's PFAS Strategic Roadmap: Second Annual Progress Report (December 2024)
- Final Rule to Enhance PFAS Toxics Release Inventory Reporting (October 2023)
- Final Rule to Require Reporting for PFAS Manufactured and Used in the United States (October 2023)
- EPA finalized its National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for 2024-2027, including “Addressing Exposure to PFAS.”(August 2023)
- EPA releases first set of data collected under the fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) (August 2023)
- Framework for addressing new uses of PFAS under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (June 2023)
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Inform Potential Future CERCLA Regulations (April 2023)
- Proposed Rule: National drinking water standard to limit six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (March 2023)
- $2 Billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding for PFAS and Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water (February 2023)
- Proposed Rule: Inactive PFAS Significant New Use Rule (January 2023)
- Final Effluent Limitations Guidelines Plan 15 (January 2023)
- PFAS Analytic Tools Webpage (January 2023)
- Memo on Addressing PFAS in Clean Water Act Permitting for States (December 2022)
- Proposed Rule to Enhance Reporting of PFAS Data to the Toxics Release Inventory (December 2022)
- A Year of Progress Under EPA's PFAS Strategic Roadmap (November 2022)
- Proposal: Hazardous Substance Designation for PFOA and PFOS (August 2022)
- New Drinking Water Health Advisories and $1 Billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding (June 2022)
- First Test Order Issued Under National PFAS Testing Strategy (June 2022)
- Adding Five PFAS to Contaminated Site Cleanup Tables (May 2022)
- Draft Aquatic Life Criteria for PFOA (April 2022)
- Draft Aquatic Life Criteria for PFOS (April 2022)
- Final fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule Expanding PFAS Monitoring in Drinking Water (December 2021)
- Science Advisory Board Review of Draft PFOA/PFOS Scientific Documents (November 2021)
- Initiation of Two Rulemaking Efforts Under RCRA (October 2021)
- Final Human Health Toxicity Assessment for GenX Chemicals (October 2021)
- National PFAS Testing Strategy (October 2021)
- EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap – 2021-2024: A Comprehensive National Strategy to Confront PFAS Pollution (October 2021)
- PFBA Toxicity Assessment Released for Public Comment (August 2021)
- Released Preliminary Toxics Release Inventory Data on PFAS (July 2021)
- Rule Development for designating PFOA/PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances (June 2021)
- Expanding Data Collection Efforts on PFAS (June 2021)
- EPA Council on PFAS (April 2021)
- Updated Toxicity Assessment for PFBS (April 2021)
- Robust Review Process for new PFAS (April 2021)
- Establishing a National Primary Drinking Water Standard for PFOA/PFOS (February 2021)
- Planning to Conduct Expanded Nationwide Monitoring for PFAS in Drinking Water (February 2021)
- 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)
- 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)