“The lawsuit brought by the state of Ohio against DuPont and Chemours alleging decades of environmental damage in Ohio from the companies’ operations near Parkersburg is the latest of many legal actions brought against the companies and will probably, like the others, take years to resolve…
The Attorney General filed the complaint in Washington County Common Pleas Court on Feb. 8. Tierney said the case was filed in the Marietta court because it’s the nearest part of Ohio to the Washington Works plant where the emissions originated…
The Little Hocking Water Association sued DuPont in 2006, alleging that its entire water supply had been contaminated with C8. DuPont installed the filtration system and for two years starting in 2007 supplied the association’s 12,000 customers with bottled drinking water. The lawsuit was settled in a closed agreement in 2015. In the same year, more than 3,000 personal injury lawsuits by individuals against DuPont and its successor company at the Washington Works, Chemours, were clustered into groups and eventually settled with nondisclosure agreements, widely reported to total $670 million.
The lawsuit brought by the state of Ohio is in a different category, seeking environmental studies and remediation for all damages done…
About the lawsuit
- Ohio Attorney General et al vs E.I. DuPont De Neimours Corp. and Chemours Corp.
- Date filed: Feb. 8.
- Purpose of lawsuit: Compel DuPont and Chemours to identify environmental damage in Ohio from C8 emissions and repair it.”
Read the full article by Michael Kelly.