PFAS “Forever Chemicals” in Canada: Could U.S. Settlements Migrate North?
By Daniel Nashid on Monday, June 15th, 2026 in Legal.
PFAS are a family of several thousand synthetic chemicals that have been manufactured and used extensively across industrial and consumer applications since the late 1940s. They are valued for their extraordinary chemical stability — resistance to heat, water, oil, and degradation. That same stability and longevity is precisely what makes them a serious public health and environmental problem. PFAS do not break down in the environment or in the human body.