Read the full article by Lisa Sorg (Inside Climate News)
“CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.C.—Mike Watters was running on two hours of sleep and one cup of coffee as he drove home to Grays Creek from the federal courthouse in Raleigh.
Watters is among 2,658 plaintiffs suing Chemours, a chemical manufacturer near Fayetteville, North Carolina, for releasing toxic GenX and other PFAS into the Cape Fear River and surrounding air, soil, groundwater and drinking water wells—including the Watters family’s.
By the time he arrived in Raleigh for opening arguments in the lawsuit, he had waited eight years for his day in court.
But Watters and the other plaintiffs won’t get to see a trial this week. He learned this morning that both sides had agreed to settle out of court.
‘I wanted to see it go to trial,’ Watters said. ‘I would have liked to have seen how a jury would have handled it.'”…