The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced new lobbying and advertising efforts aimed at protecting “forever chemicals” it deems “critical.”
The campaign, dubbed the “Essential Chemistry for America” initiative, “will educate policymakers and business leaders about the role of essential chemistry in virtually every aspect of our lives, and advocate for sound, science and risk-based regulations and policies,” the Chamber’s website says.
“As the leading voice of business with members in virtually every sector of the economy, we’re increasingly concerned that overly broad regulatory approaches threaten access to modern fluorochemistries, so we’re taking action to ensure their availability,” Marty Durbin, the Chamber’s senior vice president of policy, said in a statement.
The Chamber is the nation’s largest lobbying group, spending nearly $70 million in federal lobbying expenditures in 2023 on behalf of business interests.
