Utilities and state agencies typically have the power to order polluters to stop discharging Pfas into the sewer system, and the process is not difficult, advocates say. In Michigan, regulators in 2018 developed a successful program to identify companies that were a major source PFOA and PFOS discharges, then require them to reduce the levels of the chemicals they spit into the sewer.
"Utilities have complete control over the pipes and they don't have to allow industry to do this," said Emily Donovan, co-founder of Clean Cape Fear, a citizens group that formed in Wilmington, North Carolina in response to widespread Pfas pollution in the region...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/republicans-pfas-cleanup-costs
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