US EditionItaly Chemical Plant Execs Jailed for Pollution
- An Italian court sentenced executives from a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water with PFAS, or 'forever chemicals'.
- Eleven executives from companies, including Japan's Mitsubishi and Luxembourg-based International Chemical Investors, were convicted for contaminating drinking water and soil.
- The court's total sentence amounted to more than 141 years, surpassing the prosecutors' request of 121 years.
- They were ordered to pay over 6.5 million euros in damages to the Veneto region, a ruling praised by regional leader Luca Zaia.
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Most people have probably already heard scientists' warnings that it is better not to have Teflon pans in your kitchen. To make these pans have a non-stick coating, PFAS (perfluoroalkylated and polyfluoroalkylated) substances are used, often called "forever chemicals". Due to their beneficial properties, the use of these substances is so widespread that they are currently found in the environment, for example, in water bodies. Scientists intervi…
An Italian court on Thursday 26 June sentenced eleven executives of a chemical factory for dumping PFAS, substances nicknamed "eternal pollutants", in water used by hundreds of thousands of people.
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Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals".
Hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed for more than forty years to contamination of drinking water by eternal pollutants in northeastern Italy.
For eleven executives of Icig, Miteni and Mitsubishi penalties from two years and 8 months to 17 years, even more severe than those invoked by pm. Legambiente: "Now we proceed to the reclamation"
141 years in prison for 11 people, in a sentence defined as "historical" by Legambiente
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