A multinational French company is under fire for terminating an in-house lawyer who insisted that carcinogenic “forever chemicals” were possibly contaminating waters around some of the company’s U.S. factories.
Amiel Gross, a former internal attorney for Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, alleged that higher-ups fired him for escalating concerns that perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, could be poisoning the water around multiple U.S. plants, including a site in Wayne, N.J. PFOA is a member of a family of chemicals known as PFAS that have been linked to a number of health problems.
He filed the unlawful termination complaint on Tuesday with the Labor ...
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