CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS ENVISION THE DAWN OF THE PFAS ERA

摘要

Regulatory uncertainties hold back the sunrise, but experts seem convinced of a bright future The remediation industry has hit a bit of a lull in the late 2010s. After all, the Superfund program is winding down, not many more CERCLA sites are being added to the list, RCRA corrective actions face a finite future, fuel storage tanks are much less likely to leak than they used to be, and we’re certainly not making asbestos anymore. (Although the United States still imports asbestos for the chloralkali industry for membranes to make chlorine, and while the 750 metric tons imported in 2018 was not insignificant, it pales in comparison to the peak usage of 803,000 metric tons in 1973).