Before the UN Human Rights Council this week, Special Rapporteur Bethanie Carney Almroth made a case that cuts to the heart of how modern societies relate to the poisons they create: the world has long treated toxic contamination as a problem to be managed after the fact, rather than prevented at its source. Her focus is PFAS — synthetic compounds so durable they persist in ecosystems for centuries — whose spread from industrialized producers to vulnerable communities worldwide she frames not merely as a regulatory failure, but as a human rights crisis. The question she poses is whether humani
UN Expert Urges Shift to Prevention Over Management of 'Forever Chemical' Pollution
Communities living near industrial production and waste sites face disproportionate and long-lasting health impacts from PFAS contamination.