A beef farmer from Michigan, Jason Grostic, is the first to be shutdown by state standards of acceptable PFAS in biosolids. Grostic is now one of many farmers across the country threatening to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He said the biosolids, or fertilizer, that he used was not only EPA-approved but recommended, and that the government “dropping the ball” should not be the reason he’s on the brink of bankruptcy. According to reporting by KMUW, Grostic is still caring for more than a hundred cows, while also juggling a different PFAS related lawsuit. 

Earlier this year the Marquette, Michigan company MycoNaut received a $275,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The two entrepreneurs sell fresh restaurant-worthy mushrooms, but recently started their second company, MycoNaut, to see if they could develop mushrooms to help solve the PFAS problem. This came after reading about research from the University of Minnesota where plants and fungi were being used to break down the “forever chemicals.” One of the company’s founders, Ryan Iacovacci, said if this research has real world applications, they might be able to homogenize PFAS compounds, turning them into iconic salts that are often used for fuel in ionic thrusters — used in space travel.