Airport sues over PFAS pollution in Snake River Aquifer
Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, June 30, 2021
By: Mike Koshmrl
Jackson Hole Airport is joining a consolidated lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina that charges aviation firefighting foam manufacturers with knowingly keeping quiet the health hazard of one of their product’s chemical constituents: polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
To date there are over 500 plaintiffs in the case, and they consist of water districts, municipalities and other entities that are grappling with the consequences of trace levels of PFAS that have percolated into their own, or neighboring, water supplies. Read more.