New Jersey officials announced on August 4 a set of $ 2 million more with Dupont chemical companies and Spin-off companies to solve four old production sites strongly contaminated with PFAS chemicals, even with the installation of almost 1,500 hectares of Chambers Works near the River Delaware that was closed in 2015 after the end of the nineteenth century since the end of the nineteenth century. From the end of the 19th century.
It is also covered by the liquidation of a federal demand of 2019 that the State filed against companies to ignore a cleaning directive throughout Spain are three other places of the company in Gloucester, Middlesex and Passaccas that unloaded PFA and other toxic pollutants for decades of production. The agreement also resolves three other demands on state -of -the -fire pollution claims known as foam that form films produced in plants.
Called as defendants are Ei Dupont of Nemours and Co., based on Delaware, now Eidp Inc., and its related entities The Chemours Co., The Chemours Co. FC LLC, Dupont Specialty Products USA LLC; Corteva Inc .; and Dupont of Nemours Inc.
PFAS substances, also called “forever chemicals”, are classified as probable carcinogens and are related to development disorders in fetuses and infant babies.
EIDP companies need to create a repair fund of up to $ 1.2 billion and a reservation of $ 475 million to ensure that the cleaning is completed, as well as paying $ 875 million in land and water damage and other natural resources, said the Attorney General of New Jersey and the State Environmental Protection Department.
The department said it will maintain $ 875 million in a trusting account dedicated to tackling PFAs and another pollution, with payments that will occur annually for 25 years.
“This reference settlement will advance the efforts of reducing the PFA of New Jersey, will improve the quality of the drinking water and will restore the injured natural resources,” said Department Commissioner Shawn Latourette. He said that the liquidation would be the largest in New Jersey and older ever achieved by a single North -American state.
A spokesman for the department did not respond to a consultation related to the status of remedial work PFAS in Chambers Works and elsewhere and how it is being managed.
The pact includes litigation of multiple demands that also include the 3M manufacturer, which was established with the state in May for $ 450 million.
Dupont settlement “will resolve all inherited pollution claims,” a statement states.
Battle for responsibility
In a independent toxic legal battle, Western Chemical said that he has appealed to the United States Appeal Court in Philadelphia a sentence of the lower court separated by July 28, which he considered it responsible for the estimated cleaning of $ 1.84 million from very dangerous toxic toxic in a 17 -mile section of the river Passaquic de Nova Jersey after decades of wasting and decades of wasting pesticides.
Occidental said he has a cleaning plan approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and said that numerous companies that also launched waste in the river from the end of 1800 should contribute more to the total cost of the remediation. The Lower Court confirmed a decree of consent of the EPA which is its responsibility to $ 150 million,
Occidental bought Diamond Alkali, dioxin and other fatal chemicals in his former Newark plant from the 1940’s until the 1960’s, but said in his appeal that he was not responsible for many river chemicals, including those that resulted from previous industrial production by another 80 companies.
In a statement, the smaller group of firms said that “the settlement objectors should not leave the river cleaning”, adding that “it will encourage the EPA to force these parts to start drag and capture the lower eight kilometers of the river, as requested by the remedy design approved more than a year ago.”
Oxychem said he spent $ 260 million on cleaning and pre-emedation design for cleaning the Lower River and could spend $ 257 million on cleaning design for nine more kilometers.
