£1.6 trillion to clean up pollution from PFAS manufactured by some of the wealthiest companies in the world, used in thousands of everyday products, now linked to serious health harms. Who foots that bill?
Efforts to restrict the production of plastic “forever chemicals” that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them.
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, a cross-border investigation involving 46 journalists and 18 experts across 16 countries can reveal.