In December 2021, Chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, Tom Carper, told the Department of Defense that the Committee was working on a “legislative package to address PFAS contamination—building off of the EPA’s recent PFAS Strategic Roadmap.” Recent reports indicate that in the last week or so, the Committee’s Democratic staff is now consulting with outside groups to draft PFAS-related legislation.

While the details of the Senate bill are still unclear, it will likely have a number of changes from the House’s PFAS Action Act of 2021, passed in July 2021, in order to garner bipartisan support. King & Spalding’s Focus on Forever Newsletter will continue to track PFAS legislative updates.