Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said MDE should not only expand its testing of fish but use that information to reduce contamination of waterways. PEER did some testing of its own that found PFAS in an oyster, a crab and striped bass in Southern Maryland.
“The states have to start grappling honestly with not just PFOA and PFOS, which are legacy PFAS, but the others, which also are hazardous,” he said. “They need to find the sources of contamination.”