While on appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court over a challenge to the North Carolina attorney general’s authority in North Carolina’s lawsuit against DuPont and its spinoffs, the parties announced that they reached a $590 million settlement to resolve North Carolina’s and local governments’ claims against the DuPont entities for alleged PFAS contamination. Under…
Chemical manufacturer Chemours entered into a $450 million settlement with the federal government for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and other federal laws related to alleged PFAS discharges in West Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Under the settlement, Chemours will be required to bring its facilities into compliance with its NPDES permits;…
The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a citizen suit on behalf of a North Carolina community group seeking to require Robeson County to abate PFAS groundwater contamination from a county-owned landfill. The suit also alleges that the county-owned public water facility is sourcing public drinking water from the contaminated groundwater, allegedly putting human health and…
A North Carolina court has denied a motion to dismiss an environmental lawsuit brought by the state against chemical manufacturers over alleged PFAS contamination caused by operations at a chemical manufacturing facility. The defendants argued that the state attorney general lacked authority to maintain the suit following the repeal of N.C.G.S. § 114-2(8)(a), which previously…
Pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), several North Carolina–based citizens groups petitioned the EPA in 2020 to initiate testing of 54 individual PFAS. The EPA responded by agreeing to test seven of the PFAS and to potentially test nine more. The groups viewed this as a denial of their petition and, in 2021,…