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Environment
Lithium-ion batteries
PFAS
Pollution
A subclass of PFAS has been found near manufacturing plants and landfills, and
in remote regions of the world
Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” used in lithium ion batteries essential to the
clean energy transition present a dangerous source of chemical pollution that
new research finds threatens the environment and human health as the nascent
industry scales up.
The multipronged, peer-reviewed study zeroed in on a little-researched and
unregulated subclass of PFAS called bis-FASI that are used in lithium ion
batteries.
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