The Commonwealth is suing the manufacturer of the firefighting foam containing so-called "forever chemicals" for $2 billion in damages, and it's about time.
The federal government is alleging 3M and 3M Australia, a global manufacturing and science conglomerate, withheld its own environmental laboratory testing that showed there were significant adverse environmental effects linked to its own PFAS products.
A misdeed of this scale, involving such significant harm and vast sums of money, calls to mind previous such scandals, including James Hardie's asbestos products.
