Over a year ago, Tim Luimes, member of The Investigative Desk, came up with the idea to start a cross-border project about “forever chemicals” PFAS and the contaminated sites all across Europe. What followed was an exclusive, months-long investigation by 18 European newsrooms. Together with a colleague of The Investigative Desk, Tomas Vanheste, and research partners …
Enormous quantities of a carcinogenic toxin were dumped by the 3M chemical plant near Antwerp and ended up in the Netherlands via the Scheldt. “We did not know that public health was at risk.” This is what the ministers responsible for the decision to keep quiet about the PFOS contamination in 2017 said. In reality, …
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We did not know that public health was at risk. So say the ministers responsible for the 2017 decision to keep quiet about the PFOS contamination. In reality, there were numerous signals that there was a risk. These signals were systematically ignored for fifteen years, according to a reconstruction by Knack and journalistic collective The …
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