Source: https://legalnewsline.com/, August 25, 2020
By: Daniel Fisher

A Michigan judge has cleared the way for his state’s lawsuit to proceed against numerous manufacturers of PFAS, a family of chemicals that leach into groundwater and persist in the environment for years or decades.

The ruling by Kent County Circuit Court Judge Jay Quist eliminated the last barrier before proceeding to discovery, the fact-finding process in which Michigan will seek documents detailing what companies including 3M, Dow Chemical, DuPont and others knew about the health risks of PFAS while they kept selling the chemicals used in a profusion of products from non-stick pans to airport firefighting foam.  Read more.