And even after the settlements ever get resolved and it's no longer being produced in developed countries, economics says they'll just ship the waste to LDCs.
Minnesota has enacted some pretty strong and broad bans on PFAS already in effect with more to be phased in over the next 7 years. Food packaging, firefighting foam, cookware, and a broad selection of consumer products.
"How dare they enfringe on the free speech of corporations using their free speech to freely sell freedom-pfas to American citizens ? I hope the agency overseeing this communist-woke crusade against free speech is going to get DOGEd out of existence" /sarcasm (but, barely)
See: - https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas...
- https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...
... or just use the search engine of your choice.