EPA’s ‘Sham’ PFAS Claim Shouldn’t Derail Legal Case, Court Told

The EPA can’t avoid judicial oversight by claiming it granted North Carolinians’ petition to require Chemours to test PFAS when its actions show it denied the request “in all but name,” a coalition of six groups told a federal court Monday.

Six environmental and community groups objected on Monday to a motion the Environmental Protection Agency filed on June 23 asking the US District Court Eastern District of North Carolina to dismiss the coalition’s lawsuit that seeks to compel the Chemours Co. to test the health and environmental effects of 54 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

The coalition originally ...