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,…
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent chemicals that firefighters encounter. Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, could serve as PFASs toxicity biomarkers. With a sample size of 197 firefighters, the report quantified the serum concentrations of nine PFASs, blood leukocyte DNA methylation and epigenetic age indicators via the EPIC array. November 2, 2021 | Future…
The report provides a screening-level analysis of the potential for environmental PFAS releases from contaminated sites, active industrial sites, wastewater treatment plants, and waste disposal sites (including active and inactive landfills) nationwide. November 2, 2021 | American Water Works Association Water Science
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…