In December 2021 Tom Carper, Chairman of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee was elected. The Department of Defense that the Committee was working on a “legislative package to address PFAS contamination—building off of the EPA’s recent PFAS Strategic Roadmap.” Recent reports indicate that in the last week or so, the Committee’s Democratic staff is now consulting with outside groups to draft PFAS-related legislation.
While the details of the Senate bill are still unclear, it will likely have a number of changes from the House’s PFAS Action Act of 2021To garner bipartisan support, the, which was passed in July 2021, was adopted. King & Spalding’s Focus on Forever Newsletter will continue to track PFAS legislative updates.