{"id":3263,"date":"2020-01-28T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:22:41","slug":"michigan-sues-17-companies-including-dupont-for-pfas-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/michigan-sues-17-companies-including-dupont-for-pfas-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Sues 17 Companies including Dupont for PFAS Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">States are continuing the fight to give their citizens good, clean drinking water. Following in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/minnesota-finds-high-levels-of-pfas-and-nitrate-in-drinking-water\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minnesota\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> footsteps, Michigan filed a lawsuit against 3M, Dupont and other chemical companies for their contributions to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(PFAS) contamination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wateronline.com\/doc\/michigan-files-lawsuit-against-m-dupont-and-others-for-pfas-contamination-0001?vm_tId=2185959&amp;user=db0d4927-7480-46ef-a08f-4c7c6c0b3ad6&amp;vm_alias=Michigan%20Files%20Lawsuit%20Against%203M,%20DuPont,%20And%20Others%20For%20PFAS%20Contamination&amp;utm_source=mkt_WOL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WOL_01-21-2020&amp;utm_term=db0d4927-7480-46ef-a08f-4c7c6c0b3ad6&amp;utm_content=Michigan%20Files%20Lawsuit%20Against%203M,%20DuPont,%20And%20Others%20For%20PFAS%20Contamination&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dNeU9ERmhPVE5rTnpFeiIsInQiOiJNOGUxNSs1SEpZTnMrUlZCY2tYNFJMem5NZ3JSYzU2N05HWU0ya0l4XC9MQWpQeHJLSDZYSlpFcXlxbUtaZVFMbDQwQTlIS3dxc3A3WkRjVWRvNFV4TjFKMnd5Z2J2WWUwZ2JIUmJ0b05tKzFGWVdMR3dSN1JcL25VelpHcllmMGorIn0%3D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water Online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Dana Nelsen (Michigan\u2019s Attorney General) filed the lawsuit on January 14th. This lawsuit is Michigan\u2019s first legal action against PFAS contamination. The article quotes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michigan Dept. of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Director Liesl Clark:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChemical companies have known for decades that PFAS compounds don\u2019t break <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">down, build up in the human body, and exposures can lead to illness, yet they never warned Michigan consumers or manufacturers of the unintended consequences associated with using these \u2018forever\u2019 chemicals.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/ag\/Complaint_2020-01-14_final_678329_7.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">complaint<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reiterates, \u201cMichigan has established itself as a leader in protecting the environment and in identifying, monitoring, and addressing contamination caused by PFAS in Michigan.\u201d Dupont and 3M have been involved in several other lawsuits concerning their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-pfoa-pfos-chemicals\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PFAS <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chemicals. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/dark-waters-movie-depicts-effects-of-duponts-deadly-chemical-usage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was even made about the people of West Virginia filing lawsuits against Dupont for similar reasons to Michigan filing its lawsuit. With this increasing attention on PFAS substances, it is likely we\u2019ll see more regulations in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan filed a lawsuit against 3M, Dupont and other chemical companies for their contributions to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl\u00a0(PFAS) 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