February 27, 2019
North Carolina’s environmental agency says a finalized settlement agreement allows it to make sure a Fortune 500 chemical company follows through on promises to clean up industrial chemicals in the water or face legal penalties. A state judge on Monday …
October 19, 2017
A utility that provides water in southeastern North Carolina has sued a company it accuses of polluting the Cape Fear River, where the utility gets its water. The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority filed a complaint in U.S. District Court …
October 8, 2015
DuPont Co. was found liable for a woman’s kidney cancer in the first of 3,500 lawsuits over a toxic Teflon ingredient found in Ohio and West Virginia water, but spinoff Chemours Co. will have to bear any costs from the …
September 15, 2015
Chemical giant DuPont faced its first trial Monday in litigation from residents near one of its plants in West Virginia who have accused the company of sickening them by emitting a toxic chemical that leaked into their drinking water. Carla …
January 1, 2015
A West Virginia man has filed suit against chemical company DuPont for contaminating his home’s drinking water. Fifty-two-year-old Scott Chapman of Letart sued DuPont in West Virginia federal court last Friday. Chapman alleges that the company discharged the chemical C8 …