Her grandfather and father both worked at the sprawling plant, known as the Chambers Works, which covers 1,400 acres of riverbank in the shadow of the bridge to Delaware.Pinpointing liability for ailments that may be linked to toxic products is never easy. The New Jersey lawsuit alleges that DuPont began to recognize toxicity in the most common PFAS chemical in the 1960s but did not tell the state or local communities about the problem.
"They are setting up other companies to take the fall on liabilities that won't have enough money, so even if people win lawsuits, they will get nothing or very little," he said.The first shift by DuPont occurred in 2015, when it assigned the great majority of liabilities associated with PFAS to The Chemours Company, a new entity containing DuPont's chemicals business that was spun off to its shareholders.DuPont's Turner said that at the time of the Chemours spin-off, "there was no expectation of massive PFAS liabilities." Starting in 1998, mulitple lawsuits were filed in US courts against chemical company DuPont in relation to PFOA used to produce Teflon. "Without DuPont, our towns would not exist. He declined to provide specifics about those companies, however, or their bids.Said Robin, "My hair has started to fall out on the top. In one class action lawsuit settled in 2005, DuPont agreed to provide up to $235 million for … That's because a major manufacturer, DuPont, recently unloaded its PFAS obligations to smaller companies that do not have the money to pay for them.Chemours also alleges in its complaint that DuPont lowballed the potential costs associated with the PFAS obligations it took on. 13-2433.In 2001, residents brought a class action against DuPont over C-8 exposure. DuPont paid half of that amount while Chemours paid the rest. While the company has acknowledged the findings in court filings, it argued that they were either inconclusive or applicable only to employees working with the chemicals, not to people drinking tap water near DuPont facilities.In 2015, as problems associated with PFAS were becoming clearer, DuPont began a series of complex transactions that transformed the company's structure. That's because the kind of in-depth due diligence that a third-party buyer would do to to determine possible liabilities is not typically done by new owners in a spin-off. A resident of Colorado, she is monitoring the PFAS matter closely. Members of the class action lawsuit also sued DuPont individually, and the litigation was consolidated in federal court in Columbus, Ohio.
Any resulting deal would take those potential liabilities into account, resulting in either a lower sale price, an insurance policy or a right by the buyer to recover costs from DuPont later.Turner said requests from the SEC for more information are typical.Daniel Turner, reputation and media relations manager for DuPont, said the company had not received an information request from the EPA related to a criminal investigation.In a statement provided to NBC News, DuPont spokesman Turner denied that the Chemours spin-off was an attempt to evade environmental and legal liabilities associated with PFAS.
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