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“The British Columbia government has filed a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of so-called ‘forever chemicals’ it says are involved in the widespread contamination of drinking water systems.
Attorney General Niki Sharma says the province is the first Canadian jurisdiction to sue makers of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl, known as PFAS chemicals.
B.C. has filed similar class-action lawsuits in the past, targeting tobacco manufacturers in 1998 and opioid makers in 2018 to recover health-care costs associated with those substances.
Sharma says in a statement that the province is filing the lawsuit to ‘ensure that companies that created the problem and profited from these chemicals pay their fair share.'” …