United Nations human rights advisers lambasted two “forever chemical” giants for “completely disregarding the rights and wellbeing of residents” and continuing “to spread disinformation” regarding PFAS pollution.
The experts also said U.S. regulators “have fallen short in their duty to protect against business-related human rights abuses.”
DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours “had information about the toxic impacts of PFAS on human health and drinking water,” yet continued to produce and disperse the chemicals, nine independent experts in the U.N. Human Rights system said in a news release Wednesday.
said in a news release
The sharp rebuke comes three months after Marcos A. Orellana, U.N. special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, initiated a probe into the companies’ activities at Chemours’ Fayetteville Works facility in North Carolina.
initiated a probe
