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The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

US chemical industry likely spent $110m trying to thwart PFAS legislation, study finds

Chemical industry lobbied against dozens of US PFAS legislation including those targeting drinking water standards, research found.
Chemical industry lobbied against dozens of US PFAS legislation including those targeting drinking water standards, research found. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

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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