3M, DuPont Avoid Further Penalties in Georgia Rivers PFAs Suit

3M Co., E.I. du Pont de Nemours, and other chemical companies aren’t liable for an $850 million remediation to a Georgia town’s wastewater treatment facility after decades of discharging per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in the publicly-owned water supply, a federal court ruled.

The lead plaintiff in a proposed class action had “problematic individual standing” to ask for the remediation of the Dalton Land Application System, and a similar settlement reached with the companies by the City of Rome, Ga. redresses the chemical discharges in the Oostanaula and Etowah Rivers, the US District Court for the Northern District of ...