Water Sector News
A snapshot of clean water stories from publications around the country, updated daily!
US chemical industry likely spent $110m trying to thwart PFAS legislation, study finds
Nov 7, 2023
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.