A city in West Virginia on Wednesday sued 23 companies, including Marathon Petroleum Corp. and Ball Corp., for polluting water sources with forever chemicals.
Weirton, W.V., and the Weirton Area Water Board brought the action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act to recoup the costs of cleaning its water system of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that manufacturers allegedly release in groundwater sources.
According to the complaint, the companies’ facilities near the Ohio River contaminated the sources through waste disposal, surface runoff, and atmospheric deposition from manufacturing processes.
The board has installed new treatments systems as “conventional ...
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