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Documents Reveal Plan to Fight PFAS Regulations With Industry-Backed Research

Author:     Edwaard Carver
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     Aug 27, 2024
 Link: Documents Reveal Plan to Fight PFAS Regulations With Industry-Backed Research
Stephan:  

This is a prime example of corporations choosing greed over the wellbeing of their customers. This is also a prime example of the corruption of Congress. This is what is wrong with the culture of the United States.

3M, a corporation headquartered in Minnesota, helped developed PFAS chemicals and is a member of the American Chemistry Council that pushes against their regulation. 
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An industry-friendly research group has set forth plans to bolster legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS regulations for drinking water by conducting what experts say is biased research, The Guardian reported Tuesday.

Documents obtained by the newspaper show that the Ohio-based research group Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), led by controversial toxicologist Michael Dourson, aims to publish peer-reviewed papers by the end of 2024 that can help industry legal challenges to drinking water rules that the EPA finalized in April.

Dourson, some of whose research funding comes from industry groups, sent a fundraising email in July laying out his plans. “Can we count on your group to make a tax-deductible donation to get our team to publish a set of papers by the end of 2024?” he asked.

TERA organized a conference in October at which a pro-industry […]

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