Forever Chemicals, Forever Excuses: The Study America Just Killed

A $15M study could have helped protect families. The administration chose not to finish it.

This summer, the Trump administration quietly halted a critical federal study of PFAS contamination in America’s food supply. The $15 million research effort, launched under Biden in 2024, was designed to answer urgent questions: how do these “forever chemicals” move from treated sewage sludge known as biosolids into farmland, soil, crops, livestock, an…