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In addition, in 2024, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the EPA on behalf of Texas farmers over its failure to regulate PFAS in biosolids and prevent them from contaminating farmlands. The US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the case in 2025 ...

“Settlements are a step forward, but they don’t pay medical bills, allow farmers to use their land again, or actually clean—rather than just filter—contaminated water,” Bennett concludes. “What needs to happen is federal action—something we won’t see under this ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is also glad that the EPA is adding positions to the OCSPP, but “that division is so broken that I fear throwing more people in there, particularly people who may not have expertise in ...

In chemistry, a chain reaction is a rapid sequence of events in which the products of one reaction become the reactants of another. US courts of law can be similar. Take a New Jersey fishing company by the name of Loper Bright Enterprises, which in 2020 filed a lawsuit arguing that the ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency falsely reported last year that it did not detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in pesticides, according to a complaint by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a public health advocacy group. PEER claims that ...