Posted on 12.12.19

State, townships near $69.5M settlement with Wolverine shoe maker over PFAS contamination

Source: Detroit Free Press, December 11, 2019
Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/
A former Rockford shoe factory that for decades used potentially health-harming PFAS compounds, causing widespread environmental contamination nearby, is nearing a $69.5 million settlement with the state of Michigan and Plainfield and Algoma townships.
Under preliminary terms of the not-yet-finalized deal, Wolverine Worldwide would agree to pay for an extension of municipal water supplies to more than 1,000 properties whose wells were tainted with the nonstick “forever chemicals,” which do not break down in nature and can cause cancer and other serious health effects. Read more.

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