Industry using tobacco playbook' to fend off forever chemicals' regulation
Briefly

Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter the arguments made by the fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation, a year-long investigation by the Forever Lobbying Project reveals.
Fluoropolymers are high performance plastics known as PFAS that will not break down in the environment for tens of thousands of years, threatening public health.
Pollution is so widespread that PFAS have been found in water, soils, and air across the world, with detection in a wide range of wildlife.
What began as a so-called miracle technology devolved into one of the most pressing environmental and public health concerns of our modern world.
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