A watchdog group contends that EPA intentionally lied about not finding “forever chemicals” in certain pesticides. The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed an information quality complaint to EPA on Tuesday that requests the agency retract a ...

Documents obtained from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicate the agency may have presented false information to the public about testing for harmful contaminants in pesticides, according to allegations being made by a watchdog group and a former EPA research fellow. The ...

DESCRIPTION: Written comments to EPA regarding proposed ICR (Information Collection Request) for the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works) Influent PFAS Study TO: Director Deborah Nagle, Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water’s Office of Science & Technology FROM: PEER, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lied to the public about the prevalence of what have come to be called “forever chemicals” in certain pesticide products available on the market, according to an advocacy group that has accused the agency of “egregious misconduct ...

Eight years ago, Maine uncovered the edge of a vast agricultural problem when PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) surfaced on a third-generation dairy farm. The toxic fluorinated compounds in the farm’s water, soil, pasture grasses and milk traced back to wastewater sludge spread ...