Environmental Watchdog Group Demands EPA Retraction Over Pesticide Claims

A watchdog organization has called for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to retract what the environmental group has described as false information regarding the level of “forever chemicals” found in pesticides. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) alleged in its letter to the EPA that the government agency covered up findings of high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, as well as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS, found in pesticide products. Attorney Kyla Bennett, director of science policy with PEER and a former EPA wetland permit reviewer, told The Epoch Times that her client, Steven Lasee, a toxicologist with Lasee Research & Consulting, initially conducted a study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, in which he and co-authors found large amounts of PFOS (3.92 to 19.2 parts per million) in six out of 10 pesticide samples they studied....