US chemical industry likely spent $110m trying to thwart PFAS legislation, study finds
by Tom Perkins from Environment | The Guardian on (#6G699)
Analysis of federal lobbying documents by Food and Water Watch finds industry targeted dozens of pieces of legislation
The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around forever chemicals", a new analysis of federal lobbying documents has found.
The industry's onslaught was effective: only eight pieces of legislation that targeted PFAS made it through Congress, the paper prepared by the Food and Water Watch (FWW) nonprofit found.
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