{"id":252749,"date":"2024-06-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-your-insurance\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:13:17","slug":"forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-your-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-your-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever chemicals are poisoning your insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-partner-content\">\n        <em>This story was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story,\u00a0sign up for\u00a0<i>The Lever<\/i>&#8216;s free newsletter.<\/em>\n    <\/div>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Elizabeth Mitchell received a notice from her commercial property insurance company in April that set off alarm bells.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Acadia Insurance, the insurer for the market, workspace, and wellness-center nonprofit she runs in West Cornwall, Connecticut, would no longer cover \u201cbodily injury, property damage, or personal and advertising injury\u201d from \u201ccontact with, exposure to, existence of, or presence of any \u2018PFAS.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><span class=\"tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips4\">PFAS<\/span>, as Mitchell soon discovered, is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which appear in everything from clothing to cleaning products to cookware and are linked to a\u00a0wide range of health risks. Since most of these toxic substances\u00a0don\u2019t break down\u00a0and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/business\/forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-your-insurance\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story,\u00a0sign up for\u00a0The Lever&#8216;s free newsletter. Elizabeth Mitchell received a notice from her commercial property insurance company in April that set off alarm bells.\u00a0 Acadia Insurance, the insurer for the market, workspace, and wellness-center nonprofit she runs in West Cornwall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":252750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forever chemicals are poisoning your insurance - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/business\/forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-your-insurance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forever chemicals are poisoning your insurance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. 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