Georgia Federal Court Rejects $850 Million PFAS Remediation Claim

The Northern District of Georgia dismissed a plaintiff’s request for a permanent injunction that would have required the defendants to clean up a 9,800-acre site allegedly contaminated with PFAS. A resident of Rome, Georgia, alleged that the defendants contaminated Rome’s drinking water, which in turn caused Rome to increase the plaintiff’s water rates. The court refused to order the defendants to clean up the site, finding that the plaintiff lacked Article III standing because the plaintiff failed to show a cognizable health, property, or recreational injury and the plaintiff’s future ratepaying injury was moot because Rome agreed to not increase water rates due to PFAS contamination. The court granted summary judgment to the defendants on this claim and dismissed the plaintiff’s claim.

December 10, 2024 | Johnson v. 3M Co., et al., No. 4:20-cv-00008 (N.D. Ga.).

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