Farms, Utilities Pan EPA’s Probe of PFAS Risks in Sewage Sludge

The science the EPA used in its draft analysis of the risks of two specific PFAS found in sewage sludge is so flawed the agency must revise it, according to most farm, business, and water utility groups.

If the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the sludge, called biosolids, based on the small amount of the two chemicals it deemed risky, the result would be a de facto ban, yet the agency hasn’t demonstrated such controls would make the nation’s food supply safer, wrote the American Farm Bureau Federation and nine other agricultural groups.

The 3M Co., the US Chamber of ...