Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is representing farmers who are suing EPA to force regulation of PFAS in biosolids. Bennett said the “patchwork approach” to regulation employed so far won’t work because the pollution can cross state lines. And since PFAS lasts for decades, each new patch of contaminated farmland could take years to clean up.
“The bottom line is that farmers and ranchers and consumers are being injured now. Spending several more years studying things and figuring out what to do is not what we need right now,” Bennett said. “It has to stop.”