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29 May 2019 The state of New Hampshire filed a lawsuit against Dupont, 3M, and other companies, for their roles in the crisis in drinking water contamination in the United States. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the manufacture and use of perfluorinated chemicals, a group of more than 4,000 compounds collectively ...
MAP: Where water systems reported PFAS contamination This map shows water systems included in the EPA’s PFAS testing records, as of July 11, 2024. It’s based on boundaries developed by ...
Later in 2020, the New Jersey state attorney general filed suit in the New Jersey Superior Court against Solvay regarding PFAS contamination of the state's environment. [190] In May 2021, Solvay issued a press release that the company is "discontinuing the use of fluorosurfactants in the U.S.". [191]
Of the 66,000 public drinking water systems impacted by the new standards, the EPA estimates that between 4,100 and 6,700 will eventually have to take action to reduce PFAS contamination.
In 2019, Maryland was the first state to enact a ban, which went into effect on October 1, 2020. [79] Bans were also passed that year in Maine and Vermont, with both states' laws taking effect on July 1, 2021. [80] [81] In 2020, New York passed a ban that took effect on January 1, 2022, while New Jersey passed a ban that took effect on May 4 ...
A report by Food and Water Watch, a nongovernmental organization, found the chemical industry spent more than $110 million on lobbying from 2019 to 2022 on bills introduced in Congress, including ...
Map CERCLIS ID Notes Route 561 Dump: Gibbsboro Borough: Camden: 07/28/1998: NJ0000453514: Sherwin Williams Property [97] Mansfield Trail Dump : Byram, New Jersey: Sussex: 10/21/2010: NJN000206345: Mansfield Trail Dump [98]
Also, 95 public water systems with PFAS levels between the federal standard's 4 parts per trillion and the state's standard of 20 parts per trillion will need to address PFAS for the first time.