As the Environmental Compliance & Emerging Contaminants Program Manager at Pace®, I am often asked for my insights on current and pending legislation. Biosolids, in particular, are gaining increased attention from the media, the public, and legislators across the country. Recently, Nick Nigro, Pace® PFAS Product Manager, and I conducted a webinar on PFAS in […]
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As the Pace® Program Manager for Environmental Compliance, I am often asked what PFAS regulatory actions our clients can expect from U.S. EPA. The Spring 2025 Unified Agenda released by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a good place to begin to answer this question. As expected, several of the agenda items in the
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Released in Q4 2021, the U.S. EPA’s 2021-2024 PFAS Strategic Roadmap includes a number of planned actions related to wastewater. To help municipal and industrial wastewater professionals get up to speed quickly on current and pending actions, we’ve compiled this list of frequently asked questions. We’ve also included this list in our eBook: The Wastewater Professional’s
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The U.S. EPA’s 2021-2024 PFAS Strategic Roadmap has a much greater focus on PFAS in wastewater than ever before. For example, the Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELGs) are a tool the EPA already uses to enforce regulatory limits on pollutants in wastewater discharged into surface waters and municipal sewage treatment facilities. As noted in the roadmap,
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PFAS FAQs: Updated for 2022 Released in Q4 2021, the U.S. EPA’s 2021-2024 PFAS Strategic Roadmap set a number of actions in motion. This has led to new questions from municipal water and wastewater quality managers. We’ve combed through the questions we’re getting from Pace® clients to create this updated compendium of frequently asked questions
One of the questions we often get asked is whether wastewater treatment processes remove PFAS. Here’s the bottom line. You won’t be able to rely on your local wastewater treatment plant to solve your PFAS problem for you. That’s because traditional wastewater treatment processes do not remove PFAS. In fact, they can convert PFAS precursors
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5 takeaways from the epa’s interim wastewater discharge permitting strategy for pfas The EPA continues to make progress on the PFAS Action Plan they released in 2019. Their most recent action is a memorandum detailing an interim strategy for controlling PFAS through wastewater discharge permitting. In this post, we’ll break this announcement down into what you need
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