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Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for ‘Astronomical’ PFAS Lawsuits | At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos (www.nytimes.com)
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Key background: the companies covered up risk for decades, instead of doing the right thing, and finding another way to achieve a similar outcome

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

It's going to be a settlement and most likely it will be like tobacco and opioids settlements...

States are supposed to get it to help the victims, when in reality it's at best used as a random slush fund and excuse to lower taxes on the wealthy.

At worst it'll be used to directly help the industry that caused the damage.