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Attorney General seeks housekeeping fixes to PFAS product bans; proposes consistent definition and enforcement tools
Summary
The Attorney General's office proposed aligning the "intentionally added" PFAS definition across product categories, adding certificate-of-compliance authority in the food-packaging and cosmetic/menstrual sections, and harmonizing resale/reuse language. The changes are presented as housekeeping to clarify scope and enforcement.
Laura Murphy, Assistant Attorney General and director of the office's Environmental Protection Unit, told the committee the office is requesting modest, mostly technical amendments to Vermont's PFAS product-ban statutes to fix inconsistencies created during last year's codification and amendments.
"We are here to walk through a few revisions to Vermont's PFAS product bans law... housekeeping revisions," Murphy said, asking the committee to make definitions and enforcement authority consistent across food packaging, consumer products, cosmetics/menstrual products…
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