Top chemical companies to pay $1 billion settlement over water contamination claims: report – By Maya Boddie (Alternet) / June 03, 2023
Following accusations of water contamination, three top chemical companies — Chemours, DuPont and Corteva — agreed to pay $1.19 billion settlement Friday, The New York Times reports.
Per The Times, the major companies expect the billion dollar fund to help remove toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, from public drinking water systems,” as “PFAS have been linked to liver damage, weakened immune systems and several forms of cancer, among other harms, and are referred to as forever chemicals because they linger in the human body and the environment.”
However, Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Erik D. Olson “said the settlement, combined with money recently appropriated by Congress to help with contamination, would ‘take a bite out of the problem,” before adding, “it’s not going to fully solve it.”
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