Key issues: Environment

KEY PRIORITIES
FOR THE 2026 SESSION INCLUDED:

• Build on reforms made during the 2025 session.
• Increase efficiency and streamline the environmental review and permitting process.
• Engage communication and coordination among state agencies.
• Abide by federal statutes and rules to avoid state-by-state patchwork of requirements.
• Oversee agencies implementing
  statutory changes.

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2026 outcomes

WINS

• PFAS reporting: The Chamber successfully secured an exemption to PFAS reporting for all products manufactured prior to July 1, 2023.
• No new environmental mandates: We successfully stopped restrictions on industrial water use, further chemical bans and reporting requirements, a punitive retroactive tax on permitted energy users, mandatory environmental impact statement categories for data centers and feedlots, a bottle tax and more.
   

CONTINUED CHALLENGES

• Legislators continue to message on the need for restrictions on water use in certain cases.
• No adjustments to PFAS reporting final date and 2032 ban on all products containing intentionally added PFAS.
• No adjustments to Extended Producer Responsibility for paper and packaging.

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