Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) posted EPA’s Dec. 19 complaint as an addendum to its Dec. 27 release announcing a separate Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) suit that it and the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) filed against Inhance Technologies — each in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
EPA and the whistleblower groups are both claiming the company violated a Trump-era significant new use rule (SNUR) for certain “long-chain” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by continuing to manufacture fluorinated plastics despite repeated warnings by the agency and citizen groups that the process also produces perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and others among the dozens of “long-chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylate (LCPFAC)” PFAS subject to the TSCA rule.