The EPA sued the container maker, a Houston-based firm called Inhance, back in December 2022, on the grounds that Inhance had repeatedly lied to regulators about the presence of PFAS — a notoriously toxic “forever” plastic known to cause or contribute to serious health problems including cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility, asthma, and thyroid disease — in its products.
Now, according to the report, a coalition of the consumer groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Environmental Health are getting involved in the suit, too. But PEER is targeting the EPA, which the coalition claims hasn’t done enough to battle Inhance and its toxic takeout containers.
A fair point, considering that despite the ongoing lawsuit, Inhance — which, per the report, is estimated by the consumer groups to produce around 200 million PFAS-contaminated plastic containers every year — is still distributing products.
