Posted on 02.26.25

Who pays for PFAS? Governor, GOP lawmakers wrestle over cleanup liability

Source: https://wisconsinwatch.org/, February 26, 2025
By: Bennet Goldstein

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican lawmakers continue to dig in their heels during a yearslong tug-of-war over how regulators should hold property owners liable for contamination caused by “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

They are pushing competing proposals to protect so-called innocent landowners — those who didn’t knowingly cause their PFAS pollution — from liability under Wisconsin’s decades-old environmental cleanup law. Read more.

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