Utilities Brace for Costs of Compliance With New PFAS Water Rule
Anna Wildeman, a partner in Troutman Pepper's Environmental + Natural Resource Practice Group, was quoted in the April 11, 2024 Bloomberg Law article, " Utilities Brace for Costs of Compliance With New PFAS Water Rule."
The EPA's cost-benefit justification for the standards will be targets of litigation, said Anna J. Wildeman, counsel at Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP in Washington and a former Trump administration official in EPA's Office of Water.
"The significant cost of the rule coupled with the debatable benefits may be compelling on judicial review," she said.
The EPA's enforceable maximum contaminant level (MCL) for mixtures is also likely to be challenged in court because the agency didn't find enough evidence to establish an MCL for PFBS individually, Wildeman said.