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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...

One additional death every three days:This is how we can summarize what emerges from a new study that he calculated the increase in mortality from 1985 to 2018 within the Veneto red area:the area which includes 30 municipalities and the provinces of Vicenza, Padua and Verona where PFAS substances have poisoned hundreds of thousands of people.The research - conducted by scientists from the University of Padua, subjected to peer review and published in the scientific journal Environmental Health – was commissioned by the Veneto region and thanks to the contribution of the Statistical Service of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the NO PFAS Moms group, it highlighted how in 34 years it is as if the total population of the municipality of Orgiano and Asigliano had disappeared, demonstrating for the first time the causal association between exposure to Pfas and elevated risk of death from cardiovascular diseases.“The result was heavy,” commented a spokeswoman for...

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Eco-activists have gone into action in major Italian cities.In Venice they poured the same phosphorescent dye into the waters of the Grand Canal