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“The Trump administration is proposing to loosen requirements for companies to report on their uses of ‘forever chemicals.’
These chemicals, many of which are toxic, have been used in a wide array of consumer and other applications, including to make items that are nonstick, waterproof and stain resistant.
While formally called perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, they have become known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they can take hundreds or thousands of years to break down in the environment.” …