PFAS

Director of Science Policy; Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Director

Kyla first became involved with PEER in the mid-1990s when she became a whistleblower herself. She previously worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 for 10 years as a wetland permit reviewer and as the Region’s Wetlands Enforcement Coordinator. Kyla’s familiarity with science, the law, and the inner workings of state and federal governmental agencies enable her to assist public environmental employees throughout New England. She has a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Connecticut and a law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.

PEER and CEH Ask Court to Immediately Stop Unlawful PFAS Formation

by Susan Sargent | June 13, 2023
Motion seeks to stop violations of federal law that are exposing millions of Americans to dangerous PFAS in fluorinated plastic containers ...

EPA Must Remove PFAS from Plastic Containers

by Susan Sargent | May 23, 2023
New Analysis Demonstrates Health Risks to Millions of Americans Using Plastic Containers ...

STATEMENT | DOJ Falls Short on Protecting the Public from Unsafe Exposure to PFAS Chemicals

by Susan Sargent | May 17, 2023
In their request for a declaratory judgement against Inhance, the DOJ failed to seek an injunction to stop Inhance’s unlawful and dangerous conduct in producing PFAS ...

COMMENTARY | EPA’s Whack-a-Mole “Forever Chemicals” Posture Is an Intolerable Failure

by Kyla Bennett | May 3, 2023
The agency must treat PFAS as a class of chemicals regulated in the same manner as the European Union and other countries ...
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