Timothy Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, issued a statement: “We welcome EPA’s reversal of its decision to allow the importation of toxic PFAS waste into the United States for reclamation and disposal. This whole fiasco must serve as a wake-up call for EPA to start putting the health and well-being of local communities above the economic interests of Chemours and other producers of toxic PFAS. Under no circumstances should EPA allow toxic PFAS waste into the country. The United States simply does not have the legal and regulatory mechanisms to protect the public from the devasting impacts of this waste.”
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