This past year, our series of investigations into PFAS contamination in farmland and food systems has examined how chemicals in sludge can move from soil to animals, food and people.
Dumais, with the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is leading a lawsuit accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to protect farmers in Texas who say PFAS contamination destroyed their farms.
“They have lost cows,” said Dumais. “And then when they tested the flesh of the dead cows, they discovered these sky high levels of PFAS in them. They’ve also experienced health impacts themselves. It’s just a heartbreaking situation.”
