silence7@slrpnk.net to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 month agoLawyers 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 asbestoswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkLawyers 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 asbestoswww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to New York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10006628 Key background: the companies covered up risk for decades, instead of doing the right thing, and finding another way to achieve a similar outcome
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoIt’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.
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.