The Water Replenishment District of Southern California claims that DuPont, 3M, and others polluted Los Angeles County’s drinking water. The District intends to spend $43 million to build plants that will remediate PFAS pollution, according to the complaint, and seeks to recover damages the District alleges they caused through the production of PFAS, including investigation,…
3M reached a $12 million settlement with Alabama’s West Morgan-East Lawrence Water and Sewer Authority consumers who alleged 3M polluted their drinking water. The settlement is intended to compensate “ratepayers, household members and household owners” for the water distributed to homes by five water utilities from October 2013 through September 2016, when the suit was…
3M has reached a settlement agreement of $99 million related to claims that one of its largest manufacturing plants has been discharging hazardous and solid waste containing PFAS into the Tennessee River in Alabama. This settlement agreement will resolve lawsuits from the Tennessee Riverkeeper as well as a state court class action from local residents…
New Jersey federal district court judge Madeline Cox Arleo denied DuPont and Corteva’s jurisdictional arguments and allowed water utility Suez Water New Jersey’s claims for public nuisance, economic injury, and product liability design-defect and failure-to-warn to survive the motion to dismiss. October 14, 2021 | Suez Water New Jersey, Inc. v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours,…
Judge Nancy E. Brasel of the District Court of Minnesota dismissed an investor suit against 3M, ruling that stockholders had not met the heightened pleading burden established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act to proceed with allegations that 3M hid its liability risk related to PFAS. Judge Brasel determined that the complaint failed to…