Overview

• Eleven former executives from Miteni, Mitsubishi and International Chemical Investors were sentenced to terms between two years eight months and 17 years for PFAS contamination
• The court found that wastewater from the shuttered Miteni plant polluted nearly 200 square kilometers of groundwater and soil across Vicenza, Verona and Padova
• Managers must pay a combined €64.5 million in damages to the Veneto region and the Italian environment ministry for environmental remediation
• Prosecutors had sought a total of 121 years in prison but the ruling imposed cumulative sentences exceeding 141 years and acquitted four defendants
• Chronic PFAS exposure has been linked to liver damage, high cholesterol, immune suppression, low birthweights and multiple cancers