On October 15, 2024, the Environmental Protection Network (EPN) provided comments on EPA’s Interim PFAS Destruction and Disposal Guidance. EPN commends EPA for providing tools for evaluating impacts on vulnerable populations near destruction and disposal sites; providing a technology evaluation framework to evaluate emerging technologies for various types of PFAS materials; and ranking high, medium, and low-priority research needs. We encourage EPA to redraft the document to provide a more balanced portrayal of what is known about the destruction/disposal of PFAS and what is known about non-hazardous waste management of PFAS compounds.
Read the full comments.