The Environment Agency has invested nearly £15m of taxpayers’ money into companies that produce carcinogenic “forever chemicals”, openDemocracy can reveal.
The regulator is meant to “create better places for people and wildlife” and has issued stark warnings against PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a family of chemicals that can cause “almost indefinite environmental contamination”.
But records show the Environment Agency’s pension fund has invested millions directly into chemical firms that produce PFAS.
