“You shouldn’t be the ones responsible to pay for it,” Napoli said. “It should be the companies that created [the contaminants.]”
Two of the primary producers of PFAS, Napoli said, were 3M and DuPont, which made Scotchgard and Teflon, respectively.
“They knew back in the ’60s this product had a tendency not to biodegrade,” Napoli said.
The companies also had knowledge that the products were bioaccumulative and toxic in nature, Napoli said.