Wisconsinâs largest business interest lobbying group has filed suit against the state Department of Natural Resources, asserting that state law doesnât allow the agency to carry out a program to sample wastewater at industrial and municipal sites for the âforever chemicalsâ known as PFAS.
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The lawsuit, filed Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, seeks to block DNR from requiring that certain facilities, including some that are WMC members, allow testing of wastewater for PFAS, for which WMC states there are as yet no standards under state law. It also wants to bar making the results of those samples public.