EPA used the wrong process when it ordered a plastics company, Inhance, to stop unintentionally creating “forever chemicals,” the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a Thursday opinion.
It’s a major blow to environmental and health advocates like Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which first traced the PFAS contamination back to Inhance’s fluorination process in December 2020.
