Is PFAS pollution a human rights violation? These activists say yes.

Grist
By Katie MyersApr 27, 2023, 1:00 pm266 pts
A grassroots environmental organization in the Cape Fear River basin of coastal North Carolina wants the United Nations to intervene in a decades-long pollution fight and declare its ongoing PFAS pollution a human rights violation. In a letter sent to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, Clean Cape Fear alleges…

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