On August 13, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a federal environmental policy watchdog organization, sent Kennedy a petition asking the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission to take several concrete actions on forever chemicals.
PEER recommends that the EPA adopt the broader, widely recognized definition of PFAS, and then ban the use of pesticides that contain them. The organization also wants the Trump administration to stop the application of fertilizers that are often contaminated with PFAS. While Biden’s EPA released an initial assessment of PFAS in fertilizer made from biosolids in January, Republicans in Congress recently tried to stop that assessment from being finalized or used to create future regulations.