Major PFAS Settlement plus the Trench Safety Stand Down
On this week’s episode, anchor Brock Yordy talks about the recent $1.18B PFAS class-action settlement with DuPont, Corteva and Chemours. The companies will set up a fund to compensate public water systems over the impact of PFAS and other “forever” chemicals. Plus, in this week’s safety segment, we challenge contractors in this year’s Trench Safety Stand Down.
“These dollar amounts are a drop in a bucket, literally a 4 ppt drop,” Yordy says. “The American Water Works Association study states that 4 ppt treatment could cost $3.8 billion annually. The EPA estimates that one-third of American are affected by PFAS contaminated drinking water, about 90 million (people).”