June ’25 at-a-glance … environment

EPA pushes back date for PFAS reporting under TSCA 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim final rule delaying the PFAS reporting period under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Entities that manufactured or imported PFAS and/or PFAS-containing articles between Jan. 2011 and Dec. 2022 will now be required to report between April 13 and Oct. 13, 2026. The end date for small manufacturers reporting exclusively as article importers of regulated products shifts to April 13, 2027. According to EPA, the shift gives the agency time to prepare the reporting application and collect the data.  

State PFAS activity summaries 

The Complex Products Manufacturers Coalition (CPMC) has had a busy spring working with several states on behalf of NAFEM and other CPMC members.  

• Minnesota: The Environmental Omnibus Bill excludes internal PFAS-containing components not intended to be touched from PFAS restrictions. 

• Illinois: HB2516 that amends the PFAS Reduction Act passed both houses and remains clearly focused on consumer-facing products. 

• California: The state Senate advanced SB 682 to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. The bill would restrict the use of intentionally added PFAS to just six product categories. Only cookware is within the industry.  

• Vermont: H238, “An Act Relating to the Phaseout of Consumer Products Containing Added PFAS,” passed with no upcoming bans for, and the first state with a definition of, complex durable goods, in its PFAS laws. “Complex durable goods” means a consumer product that is a manufactured good composed of 100 or more manufactured components, with an intended useful life of five or more years, where the product is typically not consumed, destroyed or discarded after a single use.” The Vermont bill does, however, include a broad definition of intentionally added PFAS.  

This and other state-level activity is detailed in NAFEM’s State Policy Map in the Advocacy Action Center.