On Friday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental organization, released a press release saying the trove of documents the EPA recently provided to them indicates they have zero consistent definition of PFAS chemicals within the agency and are likely unprepared to produce adequate testing as a result.
The advocacy organization is trying to determine how the agency determines what qualifies as a PFAS and what does not.
“There are more than 12,000 of PFAS chemicals and currently the national testing strategy encompasses about 6,500 of them,” said Kyla Bennett a chemist for PEER, in an interview with Courthouse News. “The fact they are not able to define them and regulate them is despicable.”