{"id":121144,"date":"2021-04-01T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/states-largest-business-lobby-sues-environmental-regulators-over-pfas-sampling-of-wastewater"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:22:18","slug":"states-largest-business-lobby-sues-environmental-regulators-over-pfas-sampling-of-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/states-largest-business-lobby-sues-environmental-regulators-over-pfas-sampling-of-wastewater","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s Largest Business Lobby Sues Environmental Regulators Over PFAS Sampling Of Wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/states-largest-business-lobby-sues-environmental-regulators-over-pfas-sampling-of-wastewater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The companies attempting to avoid transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Lehnert.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 1tSpohntsnorted \u00b7<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In just over a month, the state\u2019s largest business lobby has filed another lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over so-called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d known as PFAS \u2014 this time for conducting PFAS sampling in wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/03.30.21-wmc-v-dnr-complaint.pdf\">complaint<\/a> on Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court against the DNR, claiming the agency is unlawfully seeking to sample wastewater for PFAS that\u2019s released from industrial and municipal facilities. The business group argues the DNR lacks explicit authority to conduct such sampling among facilities that operate under wastewater discharge permits.<\/p>\n<p>WMC wants to prevent the DNR from collecting samples and releasing the data to the public. Jefferson County Judge William F. Hue granted a temporary restraining order on Monday to bar the agency from sampling for PFAS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/states-largest-business-lobby-sues-environmental-regulators-over-pfas-sampling-of-wastewater\">Continue reading \u201cState\u2019s Largest Business Lobby Sues Environmental Regulators Over PFAS Sampling Of Wastewater\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies attempting to avoid transparency. Jerry Lehnert. \u00b7 1tSpohntsnorted \u00b7 In just over a month, the state\u2019s largest business lobby has filed another lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over so-called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d known as PFAS \u2014 this time for conducting PFAS sampling in wastewater. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) filed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}