The British Columbia government says it has filed a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals” involved in what it calls widespread contamination of drinking-water systems.
B.C. has filed similar class-action lawsuits in the past, targeting tobacco manufacturers in 1998 and opioid makers in 2018 to recover health-care costs associated with those substances.
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