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The Veneto Regional Administrative Court ruled yesterday on the serious PFAS contamination in the provinces of Vicenza, Padua and Verona.He did so by sanctioning that even the Japanese giant Mitsubishi Corporation - which at the end of the 1980s established Miteni, of which it has held between 49 and 90% of the share capital over the years - will have to bear the costs for the cleanup of the poisons spread near the former Miteni of Trissino (Vicenza).Based on what emerged from surveys and investigations, in fact, in first instance administrative proceedings the judges have framed as responsible for pollution all the companies that have successively controlled the Vicenza plant.In 2009 Miteni was sold to ICI and then, five years after the outbreak of the PFAS scandal in 2013, it was declared bankrupt. Although Mitsubishi opposed it with a series of arguments, including the attribution to Miteni of "autonomous choices and entrepreneurial strategies", the absence of "legal...