WASHINGTON – Following recent PFAS-related news from Manchester, the Queen City’s representative in Congress also provided a PFAS-related announcement.
This week, U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (D-NH-01) announced he is co-sponsoring three PFAS-related bills in Washington: the Clean Water Standards for PFAS Actwith U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and U.S. Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (D-PA-01), the bipartisan PFAS Research and Development Reauthorization Actwith Fitzpatrick and theNo Taxation on PFAS Remediation Act.
The Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act aims to establish proactive limits for PFAS, set water quality criteria, and support communities with contaminated water. The PFAS Research and Development Reauthorization Act is designed to reauthorize EPA’s PFAS research and development authority to accurately measure PFAS contamination and use the most up-to-date technologies to remediate it. Finally, the No Taxation on PFAS Remediation Act seeks to end federal taxation of PFAS contamination reimbursements, which Pappas says is meant to prevent families who spend their hard-earned money to ensure their water is safe don’t face an added tax burden from the federal government.
“The dangers posed by ‘forever chemicals’ like PFAS remain a pressing environmental and public health issue,” said Pappas. “No industry should be given a free pass to poison our water, no community should bear the burden of addressing this challenge alone, and no family should ever have to wonder whether their drinking water is safe when they turn on the tap.”