Delaware-based The Chemours Company entered a multi-state settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection over the company’s alleged release of so-called “forever chemicals” in three states.
Chemours will pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million and implement a $90 million program to mitigate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) discharges from facilities in West Virginia, New Jersey, and North Carolina.
It will also install PFAS pollution controls at its West Virginia plant at an estimated cost of $60 million and supply clean drinking water to affected communities surrounding its facilities in West Virginia and New Jersey at a cost of about $280 million….
Chemours Reaches $450 Million Settlement With DOJ in Forever Chemicals Case
