'Forever chemical' manufacturers are facing thousands of lawsuits seeking compensation for cleaning up local land and water supplies
Education Images/Universal Image; ©Michael Siluk / Universal Images Group, when you turned on your tap today you consumed water contaminated with PFAS—short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, but better known as “forever chemicals” because that’s about how long they linger in the environment.
A class of nearly 12,000 manufacturing chemicals, PFAS have been detected in water supplies nationwide, and have been linked to a range of health ills, including decreased fertility, high blood pressure in pregnant people, increased risk of certain cancers, developmental delays and low birthweight in children, hormonal disruption, and reduced effectiveness of the immune system. In the U.S.
Yesterday, 3M got out from under some of that legal trouble, agreeing to pay $10.3 billion to at least 300 plaintiff communities. Those 300 were included in a lawsuit brought by the city of Stuart, Fla.,as part of what is known as multidistrict litigation , consolidated for trial in the United States District Court in South Carolina.
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