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“Organics company Synagro pushed back on claims from a lawsuit filed by Texas farmers last year that its biosolids contaminated farmland with harmful PFAS chemicals. The private equity-backed company released a new study Tuesday that it says absolves it of responsibility.
The release came days after Synagro filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by multiple families in Johnson County. The families allege their farms were contaminated by the spreading of Synagro’s biosolids products on a neighboring farm, causing the deaths of dozens of cattle and putting the families’ health at risk.
‘There’s been a lot of reports out there that said that PFAS killed their cows,’ said Pam Racey, chief commercial officer of Synagro. “To the best of the information that our experts have seen, there is no evidence of that.” …