October 25, 2018
| In the News: The Intercept
EPA Continues to Approve Toxic PFAS Chemicals Despite Widespread Contamination
Eve Gartner, Attorney, Northeast Office: “The statute only allows EPA to allow chemicals to bypass the usual approval process if EPA is confident that the chemical will not present unreasonable risk of injury. But there’s no way EPA can make that determination for a PFAS chemical since it’s been known since 2006 or earlier that at least some of the chemicals in this class pose very serious health harms.”
