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Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Very Complicated — And Very Important

It’s only a slight rhetorical exaggeration to say that the limited bandwidth left to environmental issues other than climate change in recent years has been largely occupied by concerns about PFAS – Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “Forever chemicals.”  A fascinating story in Bloomberg Environment & Energy (subscription required) this week suggests that we may need a little more bandwidth for PFAS.

The Bloomberg story explained that fluoropolymers are integral to the rollout of 5G networks and are also critical to a number of advanced technologies,… More