New Hampshire is the latest state to file suit against a number of companies, including Dupont and 3M, for their roles in a nationwide drinking water contamination crisis. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the manufacture and use of perfluorinated chemicals, a group of more than 4,000 compounds collectively known as PFAS.

The suit in New Hampshire, announced on Wednesday (May 29), joins several other class-action and state lawsuits throughout the country.

The complaints [there are two: see here and here] alleges that the companies “failed to warn of the dangers of their products.” They also claim that the companies knew that releasing the compounds into the environment “would make groundwater and surface water unfit for drinking.”

New Hampshire is the latest state to file suit against a number of companies, including Dupont and 3M, for their roles in a nationwide drinking water contamination crisis. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the manufacture and use of perfluorinated chemicals, a group of more than 4,000 compounds collectively known as PFAS.

The suit in New Hampshire, announced on Wednesday (May 29), joins several other class-action and state lawsuits throughout the country.

The complaints [see above] alleges that the companies “failed to warn of the dangers of their products.” They also claim that the companies knew that releasing the compounds into the environment “would make groundwater and surface water unfit for drinking.”

*Original article online at https://qz.com/1630348/dupont-and-3m-face-a-growing-list-of-water-contamination-lawsuits/