- North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson and North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Reid Wilson announced a $590 million agreement between the state of North Carolina, 11 local governments, and DuPont and Chemours over alleged PFAS contamination in the state.
- Under the agreement, $455 million will be provided to the state and 11 participating local governments over the next 10 to 15 years. Of that amount, the state will receive $75 million, with roughly $55 million going to an Emerging Contaminant Mitigation Fund recently created by the North Carolina General Assembly, which supports efforts by local governments to detect and reduce contaminants in drinking water. The remaining $380 million will be distributed among numerous local governments that were affected by the Fayetteville Works’ pollution and that had previously sued Chemours and DuPont.
- The agreement also establishes a $135 million reserve fund from DuPont and sister company Corteva to guarantee the work that Chemours must continue to complete for decades into the future under the NC Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) 2019 consent order. One of the obligations in the consent order is requiring Chemours to provide clean drinking water to families whose well water is polluted with PFAS from Fayetteville Works. If at any time Chemours loses the ability to pay for these obligations, the state can tap into the reserve fund.