The state’s largest business lobby is suing the Department of Natural Resources over new PFAS regulations.
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and an Oconomowoc dry cleaner want a court to stop the D-N-R from enforcing new rules regarding PFAS cleanup. W-M-C says that the D-N-R doesn’t have any legal right to tell businesses to test for PFAS contamination as a part of cleanup efforts, and that the courts need to stop the state from expanding their list of contaminants without legislative approval.
Those so called forever chemicals have now been found at over 50 sites statewide, mostly linked to firefighting foam spills.