Feds Propose PFAS Limits Tighter Than NJ’s Current Restrictions

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Five years ago, New Jersey was a leader in the battle against so-called forever chemicals in drinking water. It imposed first-in-the-nation limits on one particularly prevalent danger, and followed that with tough rules on two other substances.

Now the state’s nation-leading efforts against these PFAS chemicals are being upstaged by new federal proposals that would set even stricter limits on two of those chemicals, leaving New Jersey, like other states, playing catch-up.