3M, Florida city move toward resolving PFAS chemicals claim, seek trial delay By Reuters

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(Reuters) -U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co and the town of Stuart, Florida are making “important” progress to settle a water air pollution go well with tied to poisonous “without end chemical substances” and sought to delay a trial, in accordance with a courtroom submitting on Sunday.

3M was scheduled to face trial in South Carolina federal courtroom on Monday in a lawsuit introduced by the Florida metropolis accusing the corporate of producing PFAS, or per- and polyflouroalkyl substances, regardless of figuring out for many years that the chemical substances may cause most cancers and different illnesses.

The corporate and attorneys for the town didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

The request for a delay comes after three main chemical substances corporations, Chemours Co, DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:) Inc and Corteva (NYSE:) Inc, final Friday stated that they had reached an settlement in precept to settle claims they contaminated U.S. public water techniques with PFAS for $1.19 billion.

Bloomberg Information reported final Friday that 3M had struck a tentative $10 billion cope with U.S. cities and cities to resolve the PFAS water air pollution lawsuits it’s going through. Reuters couldn’t instantly affirm that report.

Dubbed “without end chemical substances” as they don’t simply break down within the human physique or setting, PFAS are utilized in a variety of merchandise from firefighting foams to cosmetics and have been linked to most cancers, hormonal dysfunction and environmental injury.

The town of Stuart is in search of greater than $100 million from 3M to pay for water filtration and soil remediation.

The trial had been chosen as the primary to check the viability of comparable claims made by water suppliers which have sued the corporate.