US chemical industry spent $61M to fend off PFAS regulations
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Rebecca Trager2021-04-29T13:30:00
Campaign finance records show how chemicals producers lobby against policies aimed to regulate persistent PFAS pollutants
As the US federal government and Congress have mounted increasing efforts over the last few years to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a notorious class of persistent, highly mobile and potentially toxic compounds – major manufacturers of these chemicals have also ramped up their political lobbying and donation campaigns, according to an analysis by The Guardian.