PFAS PROJECT LAB - GOVERNANCE TRACKER

PFAS Governance Tracker

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The PFAS Project Lab has developed a database of United States policy and governance actions related to PFAS (per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances). PFAS are a class of thousands of chemicals that are widely used in consumer products, industrial applications, manufacturing processes, and certain firefighting foams. Researchers with the PFAS Project Lab spent two years gathering and organizing information about PFAS governance activities from all fifty states, Congress, and multiple federal agencies. The database contains over 900 actions dating back to 1999. Now this information is publicly available in a searchable online database at governance.pfasproject.com. 

https://pfasproject.com/pfas-governance-tracker-2/

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ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP’s

Federal PFAS Report Card

Open link for complete details: https://www.ewg.org/research/federal-pfas-report-card

EWG has reviewed actions the federal government is committed to taking, or for which it faces congressionally mandated deadlines, to tackle the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

To track progress on these actions, we created a federal PFAS action report card, dividing the actions into categories. Actions are labeled:

  • “Pending” if the deadline falls within the current period (for instance, summer 2023) or a future period, and the action is not yet complete.

  • “Overdue” if the deadline falls within any previous period and is not complete.

  • “Partly complete” if at least one published interim milestone has been met by the agency, but additional milestones are due before the action can be considered complete.

  • “Completed” if the action was finalized within the current period or any previous period

Partly complete actions were credited as 50 percent complete for the purpose of reporting progress.

EWG used information from publicly available federal websites to compile report card milestones. In some cases, federal agencies volunteered additional information to clarify the status of actions.

The report card reflects the status of actions as of the date it is posted. After that, the status of any given action may change, and the updated status will be reflected in EWG’s next report card.