Hundreds of PFAS Suits Spread Through Legal System

Court dockets are ballooning with litigation over PFAS, Ellen M. Gilmer writes.

• Hundreds of high-stakes PFAS cases are bundled together in multidistrict litigation in Ohio and South Carolina. A judge in South Carolina is handling suits against 3M Co., E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and other manufacturers over PFAS present in firefighting foam used across the country.
• Residents of communities in Vermont, Michigan, North Carolina, and New York have filed class actions targeting companies with local manufacturing sites that made PFAS chemicals or used them in their operations, including 3M, DuPont, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., and shoemaker Wolverine ...