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Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors | The Chips and Science Act has led to a production boom but experts say it could generate huge amounts of toxic waste
The Chips and Science Act has led to a production boom but experts say it could generate huge amounts of toxic waste
Producers of PFAS chemicals and semiconductors, a key part of most electronics, have formed a group that develops industry-friendly science aimed at heading off regulation as the facilities release high levels of toxic waste, documents seen by the Guardian show. Silicon Valley is the nation’s Superfund capital in large part because of the industry’s toxic messes, and when public pressure prompted the tech companies to open plants abroad, their operations sickened employees in those countries. Still, the amendment to the defense bill authored by the Democratic senator Mark Kelly would kill the environmental review of semiconductor production projects in which companies are required to disclose the types and quantities of pollution from their proposed facilities.
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