Overview
- Connecticut and New Mexico put consumer-product reporting and labeling rules into effect on July 1, 2026, with Connecticut publishing a manufacturers’ reporting form and approving an Erlenmeyer-flask PFAS pictograph for product labels.
- Industry groups and manufacturers have filed challenges in state and federal courts arguing the labeling mandates violate the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause and seeking injunctions against enforcement.
- The U.S. EPA replaced a 272-page draft scientific assessment on PFAS in biosolids with a nine-page interim guidance and opened a 60-day comment period, a move critics say reduces the scientific basis for national regulation of land-applied sludge.
- New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a state lawsuit on July 9, 2026, against major PFAS makers including 3M, DuPont, Chemours and Corteva seeking cleanup funding and consumer warnings over long‑term contamination.
- States are simultaneously funding testing and remediation programs and documenting exposure pathways such as biosolids and the food web, with officials warning that patchwork rules, litigation, and shifts in federal policy will determine how fast communities see cleanup and consumer protections.