Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Dec. 26, two weeks after a federal district judge in D.C. rejected the groups’ request for injunctive relief.
PEER and CEH have argued that EPA has not taken adequate measures to address leaching of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from plastic containers into the environment, a major source of PFAS contamination.