text: In December, 2023, as part of a four-year legal battle, the EPA banned Inhance -- a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer that produces an estimated 200m containers annually with a process that creates, among other chemicals, PFOA -- from using the manufacturing process. In March, 2024, the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court overturned the ban. While the court did not deny the containers’ health risks, it said that the EPA could not regulate the manufactured containers under the statute it used.