Groups Press EPA To Block ‘New’ PFAS Uses Tied To Landmark TSCA Suit

Environmentalists and EPA alumni are urging officials to use TSCA to effectively ban a plastic-fluorination process that the agency has already claimed contaminates products with PFAS in a first-of-its-kind enforcement suit, arguing that its decision will be a test for its newly launched “framework” for reviewing new PFAS uses under the toxics law. In a pair of letters to EPA chemicals chief Michal Freedhoff, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), and Environmental Protection Network...