Fort Worth Sues DuPont, 3M, Defense Department for PFAS Cleanup

3M Co., DuPont entities, a host of other chemical companies, and the Defense Department are liable for over $420 million in damages from “forever chemicals” in Forth Worth’s drinking water supply, the municipality said in a new suit.

The city is looking to recoup the cost of remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals that continue to spill from military facilities and have done so for decades, according to complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Chemical manufacturers continued to sell hazardous fire suppressants to the operators at the Naval Air Station Joint ...