{"id":1549520,"date":"2024-03-12T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1f6b901ff374f256e2825914858f7bfc"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:10:47","slug":"us-government-seeks-immunity-from-27-lawsuits-related-to-pfas-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/12\/us-government-seeks-immunity-from-27-lawsuits-related-to-pfas-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Seeks Immunity From 27 Lawsuits Related to PFAS Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government said it is immune to 27 lawsuits filed by local and state governments, businesses, and property owners over the military&rsquo;s role in contaminating the country with deadly PFAS, also known as &ldquo;forever chemicals.&rdquo; The lawsuits are a small fraction of the thousands of cases brought by plaintiffs all over the country against a slew of entities that manufactured, sold...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/us-government-seeks-immunity-from-27-lawsuits-related-to-pfas-contamination\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/us-government-seeks-immunity-from-27-lawsuits-related-to-pfas-contamination\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been linked to cancers, cardiovascular disease and immune deficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55617,36746,4058,24098,4,14683,75995,75997,202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549521,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549520\/revisions\/1549521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}