More than $900 million awarded to clients from PFAS water contamination settlement
Source: https://www.waterworld.com/, July 8, 2025
SL Environmental Law Group announced on June 18, 2025, that funds from the 3M and DuPont water settlements – the largest of their kind in U.S. history according to the group – are now being released to relieve water providers of some of the financial burden of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from their drinking water. These settlements resulted from the Aqueous Film-Forming Foam multi-district litigation against PFAS manufacturers (AFF MDL No. 2873), where SL was part of a small group of firms representing more than 280 public agencies, investor-owned utilities, and other impacted water systems in bringing claims against the manufacturers responsible for PFAS contamination. Read more.