EPA’s PFAS Orders Paused Pending Expedited Fifth Circuit Review

Inhance Technologies LLC will get a speedy review of its challenge to the EPA’s orders to stop the company’s PFAS production, according to a Tuesday decision by the Fifth Circuit that also put those orders on hold.

Inhance petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Dec. 8 to review nine orders the Environmental Protection Agency announced Dec. 1 directing the company to stop exposing plastic containers to fluorine gas because of the PFAS the process generates. The EPA’s orders were effective Feb. 28, 2024.

The company sought an expedited appeal lest the EPA’s orders put it ...