Chemicals maker's deal with New Jersey to fix impacts from former large Dupont plant avoids trial and enables remediation and drinking water treatment projects to progress,
Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.
June 5 trial of manufacturer 3M also halts as firm and municipal attorneys seek time to craft what one media report termed a
possible $10B settlement to include toxic impact compensation for other US water systems, towns and cities.