The Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully approved Virginia’s flawed water quality report which failed to identify specific waterways contaminated with forever chemicals, an environmental group alleged in a new lawsuit.
Wild Virginia Inc. said the state failed to list pollution from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The state’s Department of Environmental Quality’s PFAS sampling dashboard included nearly 30,000 pieces of data showing contamination in surface waters, sediments and fish tissue, the group said in the …