The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint Oct. 29 demanding the EPA retract or defend information on its website about PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, a chemical that belongs to a group of manmade chemicals commonly referred to as “forever chemicals” because they stick around in the environment and can build up in the human body.
According to the lawsuit, the EPA says the U.S. has phased out “the manufacture and import of PFOA” and that companies participating in the 2010/2015 PFOA Stewardship Program have brought an end to “domestic production and import of PFOA.”