Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News Spring 2020, Vol. 29, No. 1
Content
- 2019-2020 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- A Case For Regulatory and Budgetary Approaches That Maximize Private Investment In Zero Emission Equipment To Solve California’S Heavy-duty Transportation Pollution Challenge
- Editor's Note . . .
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- Table of Contents
- Targeting Public Trust Suits
- The 2020 Environmental Legislative Update: Change of the Guard
- What Are We Dealing With? a Survey of Groundwater Sustainability Plans In Critically Overdrafted Basins
- What Oil Has To Do With It: How the Discovery of Oil Under California’S Tidelands Caused a Seventy-year Boundary Dispute
- Working Lands and Agriculture and Land Stewardship: From An Uncertain Present To a Sustainable and Resilient Future For Water Management
- Forever Chemicals: An Introduction To State and Federal Legislative and Regulatory Activity Regarding Pfas and Public Water Suppliers
FOREVER CHEMICALS: AN INTRODUCTION TO STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY ACTIVITY REGARDING PFAS AND PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIERS
by Kaitlin S. Harr*
What do Hollywood actors Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, the United States Congress, the California State Water Resources Control Board, and your favorite take-out restaurant all have in common? Two words: "forever chemicals." California is one of several states in the country that have started to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, in drinking water and consumer products.
This article provides a brief introduction to PFAS and an overview of legislative and regulatory steps that have been taken to address them, both in California and at the federal level.