Lawyers for chemical company say they are making ‘significant’ progress over deal with city of Stuart, Florida
are making “significant” progress to settle a water pollution suit tied to toxic “forever chemicals” and sought to delay a trial, according to a court filing on Sunday.federal court on Monday in a lawsuit brought by the Florida city accusing the company of manufacturing PFAS, or per- and polyflouroalkyl substances, despite knowing for decades that the chemicals can cause cancer and other ailments.
Set to have been a test case, the lawsuit is one of more than 4,000 filed against 3M and other chemical companies by US municipalities, state governments and individuals that have been consolidated in federal court in South Carolina.The request for a delay comes after three major chemicals companies, Chemours, DuPont and Corteva, last Friday said they had reached an agreement in principle to settle claims they contaminated US public water systems with PFAS for $1.19bn.
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