Shortly after a North Carolina Superior Court approved an Addendum to a Consent Order with Chemours for PFAS clean-up, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed suit in state court against DuPont and Chemours for contamination related to the companies’ manufacture of C8 and GenX at their Fayetteville Works facility. The lawsuit seeks damages for…
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has asked the Bladen County Superior Court to enter an addendum to its Consent Order with Chemours, which relates to the PFAS contamination resulting from the company’s Fayetteville Works Plant operations. The addendum would require Chemours to conduct extensive, further remedial work to reduce PFAS groundwater contamination along…
The Monterey Peninsula Airport District filed suit against several PFAS manufacturers in one of the latest additions to the ever-growing South Carolina AFFF MDL. In the suit, the District seeks damages, attorneys’ costs and fees, and alleges diminished property value due to alleged PFOA and PFOS contamination at the Monterey Regional Airport in California. October…
California is notorious for having the most stringent body of environmental law in the nation. Thus, it is unsurprising that the state has taken an aggressive approach on regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the “forever chemicals” that have become the subject of hundreds of lawsuits throughout the nation. September 23, 2020 | The Recorder |…
Plaintiffs, a married couple, sued Du Pont for PFAS contamination resulting from operation of its West Virginia Washington Works facility. Plaintiffs allege PFAS traveled from the facility via the Ohio River, contaminating their water supply in Ohio and thereby causing Plaintiff Sherman White’s kidney cancer. September 21, 2020 | White v. E.I. Du Pont de…