PFAS are forever : regulating chronic toxicity in our living environment

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dc.contributor.authorVAN ZEBEN, Josephine
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T13:02:42Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T13:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 11 February 2025en
dc.description.abstractThe anthropocentric production and use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (‘PFAS’) has profound, increasingly visible, and permanent impacts on our living environment. The extreme persistence, mobility, and toxicity of PFAS have created widespread cross-media contamination with extreme adverse effects on human and non-human lifeforms. While these effects are ubiquitous, they disproportionately affect certain groups of people and ecosystems, raising environmental justice concerns. Remediation of PFAS pollution, if possible, tends to be highly complex and very costly, while toxicity persists and accumulates. Most jurisdictions have only reactively regulated these substances, relying on liability mechanisms to address potential harms. Given the severity and irreversibility of PFAS pollution, environmental law may need to rely more heavily on, or develop new, preventative strategies with respect to chronic toxicity.en
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dc.identifier.citationJosephine VAN ZEBEN and Chris HILSON (eds), A research agenda for environmental law, Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp. 189-203en
dc.identifier.doi10.4337/9781035324408.00021
dc.identifier.isbn9781035324392
dc.identifier.isbn9781035324408
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/78110
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/81027:178527070
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dc.publisherEdward Elgar Publishingen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectPFAS
dc.subjectForever chemicals
dc.subjectChronic toxicity
dc.subjectEssential use
dc.subjectPreventative regulation
dc.titlePFAS are forever : regulating chronic toxicity in our living environmenten
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