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Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides
After an aggressive lobbying campaign against a bill to ban “forever pesticides,” what passed instead “is a shell of what we set out to do,” its author said.
By Liza Gross
An ambitious bill to keep toxic “forever chemicals” off California produce lost its teeth after the chemical and agricultural industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it.