A group representing organic farmers in Maine has announced it will sue the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act for the agency’s failure to protect their land, crops, and livestock from toxic PFAS, or “forever chemicals.”
The group, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, argues that the “lack of virtually any federal regulation of this waste to date has caused untold harm to public health and the environment,” according to its letter to the EPA notifying the agency of its intent to sue.
MOFGA and other groups also plan to join a separate lawsuit that the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has filed against the EPA for the same issue. PEER announced its plan to sue the agency in February after finding high levels of PFAS in several farms in Texas and then testing the sludge that had been spread on land nearby.