The Ohio EPA will receive $150 million from the Federal Infrastructure Act and other federal funds over the next 5 years to monitor emerging contaminants, like PFAS.
CLEVELAND — The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new regulations to make drinking water safer. Now the EPA wants to limit the amount of the PFAS “forever chemical" compounds found in drinking water.
“It has become more prevalent in manufacturing to use PFAS chemicals in a development of a number of products,” said Pete Bucher, Chief of Staff, Ohio Environmental Council. The Ohio EPA said it will receive $150 million in federal funding over the next five years to monitor emerging contaminants. The EPA said part of the money comes from the Federal Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 and other federal funds. More than $46 million of that funding is intended to help small, rural and underserved communities access safe drinking water. The money will pay for testing and treating water for pollutants like PFAS chemicals.
“Class B historically had a lot of PFAS chemicals, and a lot of the stockpiles still do; we are trying to make a move away from PFAS,” said Robert Bures, a firefighter with the Parma Fire Department.
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