Keeping Pace^® with Analytical Services

Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting our most recent PFAS Webinar: Biosolids Analysis for PFAS: Challenges, Considerations, and Options. This webinar featured Paul Jackson, Pace® Environmental Compliance and Emerging Contaminants Program Manager, and Nick Nigro, Pace® PFAS Product Manager. The webinar was viewed by hundreds of attendees who asked some insightful questions, both at the end and offline. In this post, I’ll overview what Paul and Nick discussed and recap some of the highlights that might be most useful to our Pace® clients. 

On September 17, EPA issued a press release that included, among other things, an update on the liability issues regarding passive receivers. Since this issue impacts many of our clients, I’ve been getting calls and questions, asking for my perspectives. Now that several weeks have passed, I’ve had time to consider the matter and wanted to provide some encouragement for those clients that qualify as passive receivers of PFAS.

As the Pace® Program Manager for Environmental Compliance, I am often asked what PFAS regulatory actions our clients can expect from U.S. EPA. The Spring 2025 Unified Agenda released by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a good place to begin to answer this question. As expected, several of the agenda items in the latest publication pertain to PFAS, creating a kind of “checklist” for actions to watch and be ready for in the weeks and months ahead.