Acid rain "scare" went away because people were rightfully scared, they told the government to fix it, and the government told the industry to fix it (or else!), and the industry did fix it.
It would be GREAT ACHIEVEMENT if PFAS went the same way.
DDT is another example of bad things going on for decades that had severe repercussions. There's definitely something going on with wheat from America too, though I don't think it's been discovered/publicized.