Regione Toscana

Tuscany joins the now extensive list of Italian regions contaminated by PFAS. To reveal it a series of samplings carried out independently by Greenpeace which confirm the alarm that had already been launched in 2013 by the National Research Council (CNR) and the Water Research Institute (IRSA).The analyzes conducted by the environmental organization found high concentrations of the contaminant in the region's waterways, especially downstream of the rivers, where the concentration was up to 20 times higher than upstream.«The picture of contamination that emerges from our analyzes is anything but reassuring.Some cases have been well documented for at least ten years, but the Tuscany Region has never seriously addressed the problem:in fact, there is no provision on industrial waste", commented Giuseppe Ungherese, head of the Greenpeace Pollution campaign who also underlined that it is needed as soon as possible start investigations on drinking water.Tuscany is the fourth Italia...