DuPont, Chemours Dismissed From Massachusetts PFAS Class Action

DuPont de Nemours Inc., EIDP Inc., and the Chemours Co. escaped a Massachusetts town’s proposed class action over forever chemicals in groundwater, after a federal judge ruled the companies didn’t directly sell the toxic products to local polluters.

The entities historically related to E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. never “purposefully directed sales, marketing, or distribution activities” toward the state, and so the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts lacks jurisdiction over them, Judge Margaret R. Guzman said Tuesday.

Residents of Westminster, Mass., alleged that any facility or product with per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) likely came ...