Bill Gates-backed venture aims to eliminate ‘forever chemicals’
A new venture backed by billionaire Bill Gates is trying to make sure that “forever chemicals” don’t really last that long. Allonnia LLC, which launched Thursday with $40 million in Series A funding, is working to engineer microbes to get rid of pollutants in wastewater and soil. It’s starting with PFAS, an insidious class of chemicals that are widespread in U.S. drinking water…