The absence of enforceable environmental and health standards for PFAS—a class of over 13,000 toxic, persistent, and bioaccumulative human-made chemicals—poses a severe and growing public health crisis. These “forever chemicals” are found in countless everyday consumer products, from non-stick cookware to clothing, and never break down in the environment. This widespread use and persistence means that PFAS contaminate our air and water, accumulate up the food chain, and are now detectable in the bloodstream of 99% of Americans. This exposure is associated with devastating health consequences, including cancer, birth defects, and damage to the liver, kidneys, and immune system, making urgent regulatory action a national necessity.
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Classifying PFAS as Hazardous Waste
We are actively petitioning the EPA to classify PFAS-contaminated waste as hazardous under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to ensure that its generation, transportation, and disposal are managed more safely to protect public and environmental health.
Supporting Contaminated Farming Communities
We help affected families, like a farming family in Texas, share their powerful stories of how PFAS contamination has devastated their livelihoods. Our goal is to bring these personal impacts to the forefront of the national conversation.
Exposing PFAS Use in Pesticides
We are committed to documenting the widespread use of PFAS in pesticides. We are holding agencies accountable for these harmful environmental practices.
PEER's Past Efforts
- Organized more than 300 groups to join our drive to reduce our exposure to harmful chemicals from 400 incinerators burning industrial, medical, municipal solid waste, and sewage sludge.
- Defended a long-tenured professor, one of the nation’s most respected experts on health effects of chemical exposure, from an industry scheme to stop his research.
- Successfully fighting to close major human and environmental exposure pathways from toxic forever chemicals called PFAS.
- Shut the pathway for lead poisoning for 1.4 million children under age 7 living in 5 million older residential units with lead paint. A PEER lawsuit forced long-overdue rules requiring that all repairs and renovations on these older units be conducted in a lead-safe manner.
- Forced adoption of safeguards for human exposure testing of pesticides and other toxins.
- Worked with concerned public school teachers, staff and agency professionals to identify and remedy toxic schools plagued by PCBs and other contaminants.
- Outlined policy steps that can help prevent future pandemics.
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