House Committee Holds Hearing on PFAS Contamination and Need for Corporate Accountability

摘要

The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on July 24 to examine the history of the science behind the health risks associated with PFAS, and what corporations knew and when they knew it. In the hearing, "The Devil They Knew—PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability," state officials, scientists, and affected individuals fielded a range of questions from the subcommittee. No representation from a corporation with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their products was present at the hearing other than Glen Evers, president of IS2 Consulting and a former research scientist at DuPont.