New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by 'forever chemical' pollution

PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, so no. I don't think so.

There's however tetraethyllead/alkyl-lead, which are compounds that are considered PBTs or POPs. Tetraethyllead used to be a fuel additive that is now banned.

Honestly my head is already spinning after 5 minutes of trying to make sense of all this terminology. Good luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent,_bioaccumulative_an...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organolead_chemistry

Lead is not a compound. It's an element.

Lead compounds like tetraethyl lead do break down... eventually.

3M is worse than DuPont

In fact, DuPont gets their forever chemicals from 3M

3M has known for decades that their chemicals were toxic to humans and also getting into people’s bloodstreams, and once they figured this out, they hid all of their knowledge and increased the output.

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...

Because if DuPont actually is fined for what it has done, it will be bankrupt. And our political machinery (and therefore justice system) is too afraid of letting companies fail because of the harms they have caused.

Because no one is fined or held accountable for these types of crimes. Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemicals) got barely a slap on the wrist for the literal worst industrial disaster of all time. Something like forever chemical pollution isn’t even a blip on the radar of politicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Because we live in an incredibly corrupt Kleptocracy.

Why aren't the companies paying for this? And what about all the humans they have damaged? Why only farmers?