New York Attorney General Letitia James is testing out a new legal approach on “forever chemicals” manufacturers.
James, a Democrat, launched a lawsuit Thursday against 3M, DuPont and DuPont’s spin-off companies — EIDP, Chemours and Corteva — over PFAS in consumer products.
The complaint, filed in the Albany County Supreme Court, is among the first attempts by a state to lodge a “failure-to-warn” claim against PFAS manufacturers for their consumer goods. It attempts to hold the companies liable for risks posed by cookware, food packaging, clothing, carpet and thousands of other products.
“Big companies like 3M and DuPont knowingly sold toxic products that threatened New Yorkers’ health and polluted our environment for decades,” James said. “It’s time for them to pay for the damage they caused.”
