3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (214+ words) Sept 10 (Reuters) – Chemours, DuPont and Corteva on Thursday reached a $455 million settlement with North Carolina and 11 local ​entities over PFAS contamination claims tied ‌to Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant and other historical discharges. Lawsuits accusing major chemical companies of polluting U....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (424+ words) NC has secured nearly $2 billion total from Chemours/DuPont for PFAS contamination. “We know that Chemours will only do the right thing when it’s forced to, so we’re grateful to the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Department of…...

4+ day, 10+ min ago   (214+ words) Sept 10 (Reuters) – Chemours, DuPont and Corteva on Thursday reached a $455 million settlement with North Carolina and 11 local ​entities over PFAS contamination claims tied ‌to Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant and other historical discharges. Lawsuits accusing major chemical companies of polluting U....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (650+ words) SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — A multi-million settlement between localities in southeastern North Carolina and chemical manufacturing companies Chemours, DuPont and Corteva was announced Sept. 10. The yearslong lawsuit is over environmental PFAS contamination. Local governments and entities included in the settlement include: New Hanover,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (430+ words) The deal covers site-specific discharges and statewide firefighting foam contamination, closing gaps left by earlier national, state and federal PFAS settlements reached in recent years. North Carolina is the latest entry in a sequence of PFAS agreements involving the same…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (94+ words) Bloomberg Law News Three companies tied to historical DuPont asked North Carolina’s Supreme Court to drop their case challenging the state attorney general’s authority to sue them for alleged damage caused by their PFAS releases. Their dismissal motion, filed Wednesday,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (305+ words) The three chemical companies that dumped forever chemicals into North Carolina’s rivers for decades have reached a $590 million settlement to resolve several lawsuits in the state. The settlement, announced Thursday, is the “largest state environmental damages recovery in North Carolina…...

4+ day, 8+ min ago   (60+ words) Seeking Alpha Francesco Scatena/iStock via Getty Images DuPont de Nemours (DD), Chemours (CC) and Corteva (CTVA) agreed to pay $455 million to settle claims involving PFAS contamination in North Carolina, including discharges tied to the Fayetteville Works manufacturing site. The settlement resolves…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (504+ words) A federal judge has ruled Chemours and DuPont are responsible for PFAS entering the properties of thousands of North Carolinians, a major development in a class-action lawsuit over contamination from the Fayetteville Works plant. The case covers more than 180,000 households…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (65+ words) Hastings sues 3M over ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water MPR News Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. - The Mississippi River: A history…...