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EPA's PFAS Rule in 2026: Bifurcated Compliance Timelines After the 2025 Reset

EPA's 2024 PFAS drinking water rule has bifurcated. The 2027 monitoring deadline holds, but PFOA/PFOS treatment faces a proposed two-year extension to 2031, and three secondary MCLs are proposed for rescission. Here is what the split timeline means for utility planning and consulting work through 2031.

2026-06-18Read more

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NOAA Atlas 15 CONUS Preview: Why Stormwater Codes Will Need Rewriting in 2027–2028

NOAA Atlas 15 Volume 1 CONUS preliminary estimates are scheduled for release in September 2026. Once jurisdictions begin to adopt it, the IDF tables underlying nearly every municipal stormwater code in the country go obsolete on the page. The transition will not be clean. Most jurisdictions do not yet have a plan.

2026-05-13Read more